Chartism (Annotated)

Thomas Carlyle's Chartism (1839) is a fiercely argued intervention in the political and social crises of early Victorian Britain. Written in Carlyle's prophetic, aphoristic prose, the book treats the Chartist movement not merely as a demand for parliamentary reform but as a symptom of profound national disorder: poverty, industrial dislocation, and the moral failure of governing elites. It belongs...