The Human Tradition in Modern Britain

by Litzenberger, Caroline; Lyon, Eileen Groth; Boussahba-Bravard, Myriam; Carter, Grayson; Clarcq, Matthew J.; Davis, John R.; Ejikeme, Anene; Froide, Amy M.; Garnett, Mark; Hannam, June; Hanssen, Susan; Huggins, Michael; Knight, Frances; Larsen, Timothy; J.

• ISBN13: 9780742537354
• ISBN10: 0742537358
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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