The Human Tradition in Modern Britain

Caroline Litzenberger, Eileen Groth Lyon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2006
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-3734-7 (ISBN)

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This engaging book provides a gateway to larger themes in modern British history through a set of fascinating portraits of individuals that explore important events and movements from the perspective of the people involved. Political developments are illuminated through chapters on John Locke, Charles Townshend, popular radicalism, and Margaret Thatcher. Religion and education are considered through essays on evangelicalism, the Oxford Movement, Charles Bradlaugh, and Sir James Kay Shuttleworth. Industrial and imperial questions are explored through pieces on the Great Exhibition, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and post-colonial Nigeria. National identity and wartime experience come to life in the lives of G. K. Chesterton and of Barbara Nixon, an Airraid Warden during the Blitz. Many of the chapters examine the experiences of women, including single women in early modern England, suffragettes, and Irish nationalist Mary Butler. As a rich and humanized approach to history, this book offers readers a deeper understanding of key facets of British life in the early modern and modern periods.

Caroline Litzenberger is associate professor of history at Portland State University. Eileen Groth Lyon is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 John Locke: Politics, Philosophy, and Public Service
Chapter 3 Sisters, Shopkeepers, and Dissenters: Singlewomen in Britain at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 4 Charles Townshend and Eighteenth-century British Politics
Chapter 5 Evangelical Religion
Chapter 6 Captain Rock, Captain Swing: "Primitive" Rebels and Radical Politics in England and Ireland, 1790-1845
Chapter 7 The Oxford Movement in Wales: A Catholic Revival in a Protestant Land
Chapter 8 Albert and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Creating the Ceremonial of Industry
Chapter 9 The Indian Rebellion of 1857: A Crisis in British Imperial Consciousness
Chapter 10 Charles Bradlaugh, Militant Unbelief, and the Civil Rights of Atheists
Chapter 11 In Fits and Starts: The Education Struggle in Nineteenth-century Britain
Chapter 12 A Woman's Right to Be Herself: The Political Journeys of Three British Suffrage Campaigners
Chapter 13 Mary Butler, Domesticity, Housewifery, and Identity in Ireland, 1899-1912
Chapter 14 G. K. Chesterton and British National Identity in World War I
Chapter 15 Barbara Nixon: A Warden's Blitz
Chapter 16 Mothers First: Onitsha Women Battle the Government in Colonial and Postcolonial Nigeria, 1956-1964
Chapter 17 Margaret Thatcher: The Woman and Her Times

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.10.2006
Reihe/Serie	The Human Tradition around the World series
Co-Autor	Myriam Boussahba-Bravard, Grayson Carter, Matthew J. Clarcq
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 238 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7425-3734-X / 074253734X
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-3734-7 / 9780742537347
Zustand	Neuware