Ideology And Evolution In Nineteenth Century Britain

Author : Evelleen Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429883446

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Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain by Evelleen Richards Pdf

Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory. They include a number of interrelated analyses of the highly politicised roles of embryos and monsters in pre- and post- Darwinian evolutionary theorizing, including Darwin’s; several studies of the intersection of Darwinian science and its practitioners with issues of gender, race and sexuality, featuring a pioneering contextual analysis of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection; and explorations of responses to Darwinian science by notable Victorian women intellectuals, including the crusading anti-feminist and ardent Darwinian, Eliza Lynn Linton, the feminist and leading anti-vivisectionist Frances Power Cobbe, and Annie Besant, the bible-bashing, birth-control advocate who confronted Darwin’s opposition to contraception at the notorious Knowlton Trial.

Author : R. S. Neale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317219613

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Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century by R. S. Neale Pdf

First published in 1972, this collection of essays by R. S. Neale focuses on authority, and the responses and challenges to it made by men and women throughout the nineteenth century. Employing a more sociologically-minded approach to history and specifically using a ‘five-class’ model, the book explores features of class and ideology in Britain and its Empire. It includes a range of case studies such as the Bath radicals, the members of executive councils in the Australian colonies, and the social strata in the women’s movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and sociology.

Author : John Belchem
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349243907

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Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain by John Belchem Pdf

In offering a wide-ranging overview of radicalism throughout the 'long' nineteenth century, from the mid eighteenth century to the aftermath of the First World War, this study contests the methods and findings of recent revisionist interpretations. Radical movements faced a more difficult task than other political formations since they sought not merely to construct an audience - to find a language which resonated with people's material needs and greivances - but to mobilise for change. Options were limited as radicals had to conform to rhetorical, organisational and cultural norms to ensure popular legitimacy and support. This volume pays particular attention therefore to contextual factors: to the changing codes and conventions of political culture and public space. Through critical engagement with revisionist and post-modernist interpretations, it throws new light on factors which often divided liberals from radicals, and indeed, radicals from themselves. This is an accessible and much-needed introduction to the new linguistic and cultural approaches to nineteenth-century popular politics.

Author : Peter Weiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315524245

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The New Liberalism by Peter Weiler Pdf

This title, first published in 1982, explores the new Liberalism - the great change in Liberalism as an ideology and a political practice that characterised the years before the First World War - and examines the idea that the new Liberals successfully overcame the need they saw in the 1890’s to make Liberalism more socially reformist. This title will be of interest to students of social and political history.

Author : Richard Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521657016

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British Society 1680-1880 by Richard Price Pdf

A major interpretation of British history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : H. T. Dickinson
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000221474

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Liberty and Property by H. T. Dickinson Pdf

Author : Christopher Harvie,Colin Matthew,Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192853981

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Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Harvie,Colin Matthew,Henry Colin Gray Matthew Pdf

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat of Napoleon, it was largely urban and English. Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew show the forces behind Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the 'union state'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Adrian Desmond
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805112426

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Reign of the Beast by Adrian Desmond Pdf

In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the ‘Devil's Chaplain’ Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity’s ape ancestry on display. He weaponized his museum fossils and empowered artisans with a knowledge of deep geological time that undermined the Creationist base of the Anglican state. His geology museum, called the biggest in Britain, housed over 20,000 fossils, including famous dinosaurs. Saull was indicted for blasphemy and reviled during his lifetime. After his death in 1855, his museum was demolished and he was expunged from the collective memory. Now multi-award-winning author Adrian Desmond undertakes a thorough reading of Home Office spy reports and subversive street prints to re-establish Saull's pivotal place at the intersection of the history of geology, atheism, socialism, and working-class radicalism.

Author : Simon Dentith
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0312216319

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Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England by Simon Dentith Pdf

This book seeks to map the cultural history of nineteenth-century British society in light of the extraordinary transformations it went through. The transition of Britain from an industrializing but still predominantly agricultural society, with many of its traditional, vertically organized forms of social organization still intact, to a predominantly urban, class-divided and recognizably modern society remains one of the striking transformations of social history. The simultaneous transformation of Britain from one imperial power among others to the most powerful imperium in history is equally important. The author also explores some of the social and cultural changes which accompanied the economic and political ones: the transition from minority literacy to mass literacy; from an oligarchical social order to one with some genuine democratic features; from a time when women were being excluded from the public labor market to the age of the New Woman.

Author : Denis R. Alexander,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226608426

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Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins by Denis R. Alexander,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology has been used to justify eugenic programs, forced sterilization, human experimentation, and death camps—all in an attempt to support notions of racial superiority. By investigating the past, the contributors to Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins hope to better prepare us to discern ideological abuse of science when it occurs in the future. Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers bring together fourteen experts to examine the varied ways science has been used and abused for nonscientific purposes from the fifteenth century to the present day. Featuring an essay on eugenics from Edward J. Larson and an examination of the progress of evolution by Michael J. Ruse, Biology and Ideology examines uses both benign and sinister, ultimately reminding us that ideological extrapolation continues today. An accessible survey, this collection will enlighten historians of science, their students, practicing scientists, and anyone interested in the relationship between science and culture.

Author : Michael Rectenwald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137463890

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Nineteenth-Century British Secularism by Michael Rectenwald Pdf

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called 'Secularism' – the particular movement and creed founded by George Jacob Holyoake from 1851 to 1852. Nineteenth-Century British Secularism rethinks and reevaluates the significance of Holyoake's Secularism, regarding it as a historic moment of modernity and granting it centrality as both a herald and exemplar for a new understanding of modern secularity. In addition to Secularism proper, the book treats several other moments of secular emergence in the nineteenth century, including Thomas Carlyle's 'natural supernaturalism', Richard Carlile's anti-theist science advocacy, Charles Lyell's uniformity principle in geology, Francis Newman's naturalized religion or 'primitive Christianity', and George Eliot's secularism and post-secularism.

Author : Earl A. Thompson,Charles R. Hickson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461514572

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Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions by Earl A. Thompson,Charles R. Hickson Pdf

In this book, Thompson and Hickson strongly challenge the standard interpretation of the basis of growth and viability of dominant wealthy nations. Briefly, efforts of the economically wealthy and the government leaders to increase their wealth and protect it from aggressors, internal and external, are cast in a new evolutionary light. The challenge is to the idea that societies leading intellectual formulators of political and social policy have been helpful. Their alternative, and persuasive, interpretation is that the rise and survival of wealthier nations has been achieved because of an `effective democracy'. The authors explain why an effective democratic state must avoid `narrow, short-sighted', rational appearing concessions to a sequence of aggressors. In short, the Thompson-Hickson interpretation of the rise of wealthy dominant nations does not rely on advice of superior intellectual advisors, but instead rests on the pragmatic, almost ad hoc, actions of democratic legislators.

Author : Emily Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192520098

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Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914 by Emily Jones Pdf

Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to the identity of the British Conservative Party. The idea of 'Burkean conservatism' - a political philosophy which upholds 'the authority of tradition', the organic, historic conception of society, and the necessity of order, religion, and property - has been incredibly influential both in international academic analysis and in the wider political world. This is a highly significant intellectual construct, but its origins have not yet been understood. Emily Jones demonstrates, for the first time, that the transformation of Burke into the 'founder of conservatism' was in fact part of wider developments in British political, intellectual, and cultural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including political texts, parliamentary speeches, histories, biographies, and educational curricula, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism shows how and why Burke's reputation was transformed over a formative period of British history. In doing so, it bridges the significant gap between the history of political thought as conventionally understood and the history of the making of political traditions. The result is to demonstrate that, by 1914, Burke had been firmly established as a 'conservative' political philosopher and was admired and utilized by political Conservatives in Britain who identified themselves as his intellectual heirs. This was one essential component of a conscious re-working of C/conservatism which is still at work today.

Author : Derek Fraser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137605894

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The Evolution of the British Welfare State by Derek Fraser Pdf

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. Derek Fraser's authoritative account is the essential starting point for anyone learning about how and why Britain created the first Welfare State, and its development into the 21st century. This is an ideal core text for dedicated modules on the history of British social policy or the British welfare state - or a supplementary text for broader modules on modern British history or British political history - which may be offered at all levels of an undergraduate history, politics or sociology degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying the history of the British welfare state for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in British history, politics or social policy. New to this Edition: - Revised and updated throughout in light of the latest research and historiographical debates - Brings the story right up to the present day, now including discussion of the Coalition and Theresa May's early Prime Ministership - Features a new overview conclusion, identifying key issues in modern British social history

Author : Ian Adams
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0719050561

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Ideology and Politics in Britain Today by Ian Adams Pdf

Examining the variety of ideas and values that influence British politics today, in light of how they developed and arrived in their present state, this text considers the future of British politics and what forces may shape further development.