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Focusing on the intersection of debates and political action, the book provides both theoretical insights and practical methods for analysis. It defines politics and political discourse, elaborates on debates as exchanges of arguments, and offers research practices for examining texts. Through case studies, it illustrates how to analyze parliamentary debates, documents, and media articles, making it a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in political rhetoric and text analysis.

This book offers much-needed insight into the Oxford and Cambridge Unions and the important role they have played in nineteenth-century British political culture.

This book offers much-needed insight into the Oxford and Cambridge Unions and the important role they have played in nineteenth-century British political culture. Despite this role, or perhaps for that very reason, the Unions have received very little scholarly attention as to their political activities. This study will focus particularly on debating practices through which their members became knowledgeable of the parliamentary way of doing politics. More significantly, it uses the original Union records as primary research material to show that they also had unique political practices of their own. Presenting a detailed analysis of their debates, the book argues that the Unions should be appreciated as independent political arenas, not mere extensions of Westminster politics.