The Human Tradition in Modern BritainC. J. Litzenberger, Eileen Groth Lyon Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 - 257 Seiten 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. As a rich and humanized supplement to traditional survey texts, this book offers readers a deeper understanding of key facets of British life in the early modern and modern periods. |
Inhalt
John Locke Politics Philosophy and Public Service | 1 |
Sisters Shopkeepers and Dissenters Singlewomen in Britain at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century | 17 |
Charles Townshend and Eighteenthcentury British Politics | 31 |
Evangelical Religion | 47 |
Captain Rock Captain Swing Primitive Rebels and Radical Politics in England and Ireland 17901845 | 63 |
The Oxford Movement in Wales A Catholic Revival in a Protestant Land | 81 |
Albert and the Great Exhibition of 1851 Creating the Ceremonial of Industry | 95 |
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 A Crisis in British Imperial Consciousness | 111 |
A Womans Right to Be Herself The Political Journeys of Three British Suffrage Campaigners | 155 |
Mary Butler Domesticity Housewifery and Identity in Ireland 18991912 | 171 |
G K Chesterton and British National Identity in World War I | 187 |
Barbara Nixon A Wardens Blitz | 201 |
Mothers First Onitsha Women Battle the Government in Colonial and Postcolonial Nigeria 19561964 | 221 |
Margaret Thatcher The Woman and Her Times | 235 |
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About the Contributors | 255 |
Charles Bradlaugh Militant Unbelief and the Civil Rights of Atheists | 127 |
In Fits and Starts The Education Struggle in Nineteenthcentury Britain | 139 |
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active Albert Alice Zaines Anglican Annie Kenney argued atheists became Blitz British Cambridge campaign Catholic ceremony Charles Bradlaugh Chesterton Christabel Pankhurst Christian Church of England clergy colonial cultural domestic Dublin early modern economic eighteenth century English essay evangelical Exhibition female France G. K. Chesterton Gaelic League Helena Swanwick important India industrial influence Ireland Irish Irishwomen James Jane and Alice John Kay-Shuttleworth leaders liberal lived Locke Locke's London Margaret Mary Butler ment minister Modern Britain moral Nigeria nineteenth century Nixon oath Onitsha organized Oxford Movement Pankhurst Parliament parliamentary period political poor popular protest radical Raiders Overhead rebellion reform religion religious role Roman Royal schools shelters singlewomen Sinn Féin social Society Suffrage Movement Teresa Billington-Greig Thatcher tion tories Townshend Tractarian trade tradition University Press Victorian Wales wardens Welsh Wesley whigs William women Women's Suffrage WSPU Zaines sisters