The Human Tradition in Modern Britain: : The Human Tradition around the World series Myriam Boussahba-Bravard Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The Human Tradition in Modern Britain

Textbook

The Human Tradition in Modern Britain

Textbook

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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.

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

Product details

Published	17 Aug 2006
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	274
ISBN	9780742537347
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	238 x 159 mm
Series	The Human Tradition around the World series
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Caroline Litzenberger

Anthology Editor

Eileen Groth Lyon

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Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

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Grayson Carter

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Matthew J. Clarcq

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John R. Davis

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Anene Ejikeme

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Amy M. Froide

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Mark Garnett

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June Hannam

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Susan Hanssen

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Michael Huggins

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Frances Knight

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Timothy Larsen

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D A. J. MacPherson

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David Savage

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W.J Sheils

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Eric G. Tenbus

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Andrew C. Thompson

The collection's scope is impressive, and the essays are beautifully written yet quite accessible. This volume will no doubt serve to make history come alive both for students and the general public. Highly recommended. All public and undergraduate collections.

S. L. Hoglund, SUNY at Stony Brook, Choice Reviews
The collection's scope is impressive, and the essays are beautifully written yet quite accessible. This volume will no doubt serve to make history come alive both for students and the general public. Highly recommended.

S. L. Hoglund, Choice Reviews
Students will find these essays about notable persons an invaluable means of relating to an issue or idea on a individual level, which then allows them to approach larger concepts with greater understanding. The Human Tradition in Modern Britain will be very useful in classes as the basis for lively discussions.

Margaret Minor, Nicholls State University