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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Original Title Page -- PREFACE -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER I: PROTOTYPES OF CHARTISM -- CHAPTER II: THE WHIG RULE -- CHAPTER III: THE NEW POOR LAW -- CHAPTER IV: THE UNIVERSAL DISTRESS -- CHAPTER V: LABOR LEGISLATION AND TRADE UNIONISM -- CHAPTER VI: THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER -- CHAPTER VII: THE LEADERS -- CHAPTER VIII: THE GOSPEL OF REVOLT -- CHAPTER IX: THE PEOPLE -- CHAPTER X: THE PETITION, THE CONVENTION AND THE GOVERNMENT -- CHAPTER XI: THE WRESTLING FORCCES -- CHAPTER XII: THE NEWPORT RIOT -- APPENDIX A: Petition agreed to at the "Crown and Anchor" meeting, February 28, 1837 -- APPENDIX B: The People's charter -- APPENDIX C: The National Petition -- APPENDIX D: Dialogue on war, between a moral force whig and a Chartist, by Bronterre -- INDEX.

Professor Rosenblatt's The Chartist Movement was the first serious study of Chartism, using the techniques of modern scholarship, to appear in English. The book comprises a detailed account of the history of the movement, dealing mainly with the period from 1837 until the Chartist riots at Newport, South Wales, in November 1839.As well as describing the political, industrial and social conditions that gave birth to the Chartist movement, this work contains extremely useful statistical tables of the 543 persons who were convicted for offences committed in the furtherance of Chartism between Jan