This first full-scale biography finally brings to light Hunt's vital role in molding the English working-class into an effective political force. Converted to the reform cause during the wars against Napoleonic France, Hunt gave popular radicalism a distinctly working-class perspective that countered the contemporary belief in a laissez-faire political economy. Hero of the unrepresented and repressed, scourge of the moderate reformers and gradualists, Hunt set the standard for the Chartist challenge. This work, based on a wide range of primary sources, reassessed Hunt's influential career and illuminates a formative period in the development of radical politics in England.
- ISBN10 0956482783
- ISBN13 9780956482785
- Publish Date 30 April 2012 (first published December 1985)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Breviary Stuff Publications
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 248
- Language English