Women in British Politics, 1780-1860
Women in British Politics, 1780-1860

Author: NA NA

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1349629898

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This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressure group politics are examined in depth (including Jewish civil rights and the campaigns against the Corn Laws and Indian widow-burning). The attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, domesticity, European nationalism, empire, and lifestyle enable this book to challenge not only the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women, but also the nature of political history itself.

Women in British Politics, 1760-1860
Women in British Politics, 1760-1860

Author: Kathryn Gleadle

Publisher:

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 9780333771419

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Examines women's political involvement from a variety of angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressure group politics are examined in depth (including Jewish civil rights and the campaigns against the Corn Laws and Indian widow-burning). The attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, domesticity, European nationalism, empire and lifestyle enable this book to challenge not only the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women, but also the nature of political history itself.

Women in British Politics, 1780-1860
Women in British Politics, 1780-1860

Author: Kathryn Gleadle

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2000-11-04

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9780312233563

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This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressure group politics are examined in depth (including Jewish civil rights and the campaigns against the Corn Laws and Indian widow-burning). The attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, domesticity, European nationalism, empire, and lifestyle enable this book to challenge not only the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women, but also the nature of political history itself.

Female Labour Power
Female Labour Power

Author: Janet Greenlees

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780754640509

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The cotton industry was the first large-scale factory system to emerge during the industrial revolution, and as such there were no set business practices for employers or employees to follow in the organisation of the shop floor. In this book, Janet Greenlees argues that this situation provided workers in both Britain and the United States with a unique opportunity to influence decisions about work patterns and conditions of labour, and to set the precedent for industries that were to follow. Furthermore, data relating to the mass employment of women in the cotton industries, is used to challenge many of the tacit assumptions of women's passivity as workers that pervade the current literature.

Women in British Politics, c.1689-1979
Women in British Politics, c.1689-1979

Author: Krista Cowman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-12-09

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1350307033

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This account examines some of the areas of women's political activity in Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the election of the first female Prime Minister in 1979. It shows how women had worked in a variety of arenas and organizations before the suffrage campaign and explores the directions their political activity took afterwards.

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author: Chris Williams

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1405143096

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A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essaysby expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political,social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the lateGeorgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English, in scope. Pays attention to the experiences of women as well as ofmen. Illustrated with maps and charts. Includes guides to further reading.

Transnational England
Transnational England

Author: Monika Class

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1443809373

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The rise of the modern English nation coincided with England’s increased encounters with other peoples, both at home and abroad. Their cultures and ideas—artistic, religious, political, and philosophical—contributed, in turn, to the composition of England’s own domestic identity. Transnational England sheds light on this exchange through a close investigation of the literatures of the time, from dramas to novels, travel narratives to religious hymns, and poetry to prose, all of which reveal how connections between England and other world communities 1780-1860 simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation and the ideological boundaries that constituted it. Featuring essays from distinguished and emergent scholars that will enhance the literary, historical, and cultural knowledge of England's interaction with European, American, Eastern, and Asian nations during a time of increased travel and vast imperial expansion, this volume is valuable reading for academics and students alike.

Borderline Citizens
Borderline Citizens

Author: Kathryn Gleadle

Publisher: OUP/British Academy

Published: 2009-09-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780197264492

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This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the 19th century. Innovative in its attention to both urban and rural experiences of politics, the volume also challenges many assumptions about contemporary politics, including fresh insights into the Reform Act of 1832.

Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain
Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain

Author: K. D. Reynolds

Publisher: Oxford Historical Monographs

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780198207276

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This study of gender and power in Victorian Britain is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy in the 19th century. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it explores the roles of aristocratic women in public life, from their country estates to the salons of Westminster and the royal court. Reynolds also shows that a partnership of authority between men and women was integral to aristocratic life, thus making an important contribution to the "separate spheres" debate. Moreover, she reveals in full the crucial role that these women played at all levels of political activity--from local communities to the national electoral process. The book is both a lively portrait of women's experiences in modern Britain and a corrective to the view of the upper-class Victorian woman as a passive social butterfly.

The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890
The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890

Author: M. Baer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-07-25

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1137035293

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The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and tranquil in an age of democracy.