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9780742537347

The Human Tradition in Modern Britain

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742537347

  • ISBN10:

    074253734X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-08-17
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
1 John Locke: Politics, Philosophy, and Public Service
1(16)
W.J. Sheils
2 Sisters, Shopkeepers, and Dissenters: Singlewomen in Britain at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
17(14)
Amy M. Froide
3 Charles Townshend and Eighteenth-century British Politics
31(16)
Andrew C. Thompson
4 Evangelical Religion
47(16)
Grayson Carter
5 Captain Rock, Captain Swing: "Primitive" Rebels and Radical Politics in England and Ireland, 1790-1845
63(18)
Michael Huggins
6 The Oxford Movement in Wales: A Catholic Revival in a Protestant Land
81(14)
Frances Knight
7 Albert and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Creating the Ceremonial of Industry
95(16)
John R. Davis
8 The Indian Rebellion of 1857: A Crisis in British Imperial Consciousness
111(16)
David Savage
9 Charles Bradlaugh, Militant Unbelief, and the Civil Rights of Atheists
127(12)
Timothy Larsen
10 In Fits and Starts: The Education Struggle in Nineteenth-century Britain 139(16)
Eric G. Tenbus
11 A Woman's Right to Be Herself: The Political Journeys of Three British Suffrage Campaigners 155(16)
June Hannam and Myriam Boussahba-Bravard
12 Mary Butler, Domesticity, Housewifery, and Identity in Ireland, 1899-1912 171(16)
D.A.J. MacPherson
13 G.K. Chesterton and British National Identity in World War I 187(14)
Susan Hanssen
14 Barbara Nixon: A Warden's Blitz 201(20)
Matthew J. Clarcq
15 Mothers First: Onitsha Women Battle the Government in Colonial and Postcolonial Nigeria, 1956-1964 221(14)
Anene Ejikeme
16 Margaret Thatcher: The Woman and Her Times 235(14)
Mark Garnett
Index 249(6)
About the Contributors 255

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