Shooting Niagara And After? is a wide-ranging examination of Britain s Second Reform Act of 1867 and its impact, which doubled the electorate and propelled the country into the age of mass politics. * Discusses the political world that the Second Reform Act created, as well as the intellectual forces which brought it into being * Addresses issues and perspectives related to political history, imperial history, Irish history, the history of childhood, popular protest, political thought, class, age, and gender * Contains contributions from distinguished scholars, such as Malcolm Chase, Kathryn Gleadle, Jonathan Parry and Gareth Stedman Jones, as well as from younger and emerging scholars * Coincides with the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Second Reform Act, a landmark in the history of British democracy