2 The Impact of Reform : The General Elections of 1880 and 1885

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vi
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Technical Glossary xiv
7. Introduction : The Challenge of Reintegration in Political History 1
8. 1 On Method : Text-Mining, Corpora and the Historical Study of Language 21
9. 2 The Impact of Reform : The General Elections of 1880 and 1885 44
10. 3 The Impact of Home Rule : The General Elections of 1886 and 1892 81
11. 4 The Impact of Imperialism : The General Elections of 1895 and 1900 124
12. 5 The Impact of New Liberalism : The General Elections of 1906 and 1910 171
13. Conclusion: Who Won the War of Words? 229
14. APPENDIX 1 Technical and Methodological 241
15. APPENDIX 2 Statistical 248
16. Bibliography 309
17. Index 333