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country's political development" (p. 13). In considering universal suffrage, he argues that "historians have tended to emphasize the inevitability of
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was withheld for so long and what combination of forces made it possible to do this" (p. 14) and "how the demand for universal suffrage was successfully resisted, and in what way the working class was persuaded not to make political use again of its industrial strength ... poses the most
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