An Artisan Elite In Victorian Society

Author : Geoffrey Crossick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317237426

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An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society by Geoffrey Crossick Pdf

First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it, and that stability is in part explained by the emergence of an artisan elite with a specific relationship to the society around it. This book examines that elite: its clubs and societies, co-operatives and building societies; its values and ideology, challenging the notion that these artisans directly absorbed middle-class values; its politics, tracing the evolution from Chartism through the Reform League and on to a radical liberalism which existed in constant tension with the local liberal middle class. A careful reconstruction of the social, political and industrial life of these artisans is set within the context of the local communities, and their understanding of the mid-Victorian society in which they lived is seen as the explanation for their values and activities. This title makes a major contribution towards our understanding of the nineteenth-century working class.

Author : Benno Engels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498585453

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The Poverty of Planning by Benno Engels Pdf

Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Benno Engels examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In his analysis of urbanization in England, Engels considers the influences of property owners, inheritance laws, local government structures, fiscal crises of the local and central state, shifts in voter sentiments, fluctuating economic conditions, and class-based pressure group activity.

Author : Miles Taylor,Michael Wolff
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0719067251

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The Victorians Since 1901 by Miles Taylor,Michael Wolff Pdf

Over a century after the death of Queen Victoria, historians are busy re-appraising her age and achievements. However, our understanding of the Victorian era is itself a part of history, shaped by changing political, cultural and intellectual fashions. Bringing together a group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, English literature, art history and cultural studies, this book identifies and assesses the principal influences on twentieth-century attitudes towards the Victorians. Developments in academia, popular culture, public history and the internet are covered in this important and stimulating collection, and the final chapters anticipate future global trends in interpretations of the Victorian era, making an essential volume for students of Victorian Studies.

Author : Theodore Koditschek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521327717

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Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society by Theodore Koditschek Pdf

This book examines the process by which a capitalist society emerged in Bradford. Although Bradford represents an unusual social environment where industrial development began very early and proceeded very fast, its history discloses with unusual force and clarity a process that was more gradually transforming the wider society of nineteenth-century Britain and that subsequently spread throughout the world.

Author : F. M. L. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0521438144

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The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950 by F. M. L. Thompson Pdf

Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians, they have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that an outpouring of research and writing is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of topical monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three perspectives: those of regional communities, the working and living environment, and social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.

Author : Martin Hewitt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351959155

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An Age of Equipoise? Reassessing Mid-Victorian Britain by Martin Hewitt Pdf

The Age of Equipoise by W.L Burn was published in 1964 and became a central text in the canon of interpretations of the Victorian period. The book subsequently fell out of favour but recent claims to establish a new interpretative standard have, paradoxically, prompted reviewers to cast back to Burn's work as the orthodox standard against which such claims should be judged. The essays in this volume by British and American contributors all engage, to varying degrees, with the notion of 'equipoise' and how it can help to illuminate the mid-Victorian period in ways which alternative formulations cannot. Some of the chapters develop arguments embedded in Burn's own book; others take up issues largely absent in The Age of Equipoise, such as the position of children, Britain's interaction with the wider world, and the threats the period experienced to its concept of masculine identity. Together the essays demonstrate the intricacy and turbulence of the forces of cohesion in Victorian society, along with the success of that culture in achieving a working, if shifting, modus vivendi. Moreover, they substantiate the argument that, whatever the limitations of Burn's work, 'equipoise' deserves rehabilitation as a powerful conceptual framework for making sense of mid-Victorian Britain. About the Editor: Martin Hewitt is Director of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies and editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture. With Robert Poole he has recently produced an edition of The Diaries of Samuel Bamford, 1858-61 (Sutton, 2000).

Author : Geoffrey Crossick,Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317267621

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Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Ninteenth-Century Europe by Geoffrey Crossick,Heinz-Gerhard Haupt Pdf

First published in 1984. Shopkeepers and master artisans had a striking presence in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, not only in the development of industrial and urban economies, but also the fabric of social life and the politics of protest. The experience of 1848, the differing pace of various forms of nationalism and liberalism and, at the end of the century, the shift towards right-wing nationalist or Catholic political movements reflected a developing ‘crisis’ in the petite bourgeoisie. The essays examine the nature of this crisis and ask critical questions about the social relations of the petite bourgeoisie with the developing working classes. This book as a whole provides a fresh and integrated approach to the world of these shopkeepers and master artisans and illuminates much else besides in the social history of nineteenth-century Europe.

Author : S. Cordery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230598041

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British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914 by S. Cordery Pdf

The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history. It establishes the central role of the Friendly Societies in the political activism of British workers, changing understandings of masculinity and femininity, the ritualised expression of social tensions and the origins of the welfare state.

Author : Katherine Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351537766

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Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture by Katherine Wheeler Pdf

In the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical architecture of Greece and Rome. By the turn of the century, however, the same journal praised the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi as the ?Christopher Columbus of modern architecture.? Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture, 1850-1914 examines these conflicting characterizations and reveals how the writing of architectural history was intimately tied to the rise of the professional architect and the formalization of architectural education in late nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a broad range of evidence, including literary texts, professional journals, university curricula, and census records, Victorian Perceptions reframes works by seminal authors such as John Ruskin, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and Geoffrey Scott alongside those by architect-authors such as William J. Anderson and Reginald Blomfield within contemporary architectural debates. Relevant for architectural historians, as well as literary scholars and those in Victorian studies, Victorian Perceptions reassesses the history of Renaissance architecture within the formation of a modern, British architectural profession.

Author : Mike Huggins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1852854154

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The Victorians and Sport by Mike Huggins Pdf

Many of the sports that have spread across the world, from athletics and boxing to golf and tennis, had their origins in nineteenth-century Britain. They were exported around the world by the British Empire, and Britain's influence in the world led to many of its sports being adopted in other countries. (Americans, however, liked to show their independence by rejecting cricket for baseball.) The Victorians and Sport is a highly readable account of the role sport played in both Victorian Britain and its empire. Major sports attracted mass followings and were widely reported in the press. Great sporting celebrities, such as the cricketer Dr W.G. Grace, were the best-known people in the country, and sporting rivalries provoked strong loyalties and passionate emotions. Mike Huggins provides fascinating details of individual sports and sportsmen. He also shows how sport was an important part of society and of many people's lives.

Author : Andrew Miles,David Vincent
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Occupational mobility
ISBN : 071903499X

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Building European Society by Andrew Miles,David Vincent Pdf

Author : K. Theodore Hoppen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192543974

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The Mid-Victorian Generation by K. Theodore Hoppen Pdf

This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theodore Hoppen identifies three defining themes. The first he calls `established industrialism' - the growing acceptance that factory life and manufacturing had come to stay. It was during these four decades that the balance of employment shifted irrevocably. For the first time in history, more people were employed in industry than worked on the land. The second concerns the `multiple national identities' of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Dr Hoppen's study of the histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Empire reveals the existence of a variety of particular and overlapping national traditions flourishing alongside the increasingly influential structure of the unitary state. The third defining theme is that of `interlocking spheres' which the author uses to illuminate the formation of public culture in the period. This, he argues, was generated not by a series of influences operating independently from each other, but by a variety of intermeshed political, economic, scientific, literary and artistic developments. This original and authoritative book will define these pivotal forty years in British history for the next generation.

Author : Eric J. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317873716

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The Forging of the Modern State by Eric J. Evans Pdf

In this hugely ambitious history of Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which the country was transformed into the world’s first industrial power. This was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain, yet one in which transformation was achieved without political revolution. The unique combination of transition and revolution is a major theme in the book, which ranges across the embryonic empire, the Church, education, health, finance, and rural and urban life. Evans gives particular attention to the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Third Edition includes an entirely new introductory chapter, and is illustrated for the first time.

Author : Martin Pugh
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780930411

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State and Society Fourth Edition by Martin Pugh Pdf

State and Society is one of the most respected introductions to the social and political history of modern Britain. Now in its fourth edition, this book guides readers through the decline of New Labour, the financial crisis and the Coalition Government, as well as discussing the continuing dilemmas of national unity.

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135734916

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Historical Geography: Progress and Prospect by Michael Pacione Pdf

Historical geography has been a major area of activity in recent years. Much of the recent work and research findings have been extremely valuable to historians and archaeologists and as background to the study of contemporary geography. This reissue, first published in 1987, presents an overview of contemporary developments in all the major branches of the discipline. As such it provides a valuable introduction to the subject, a review of the latest state of the art and a pointer to future research directions.