Structures and Transformations in Modern British History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Structures and Transformations in Modern British History write by David Feldman. This book was released on 2011-01-20. Structures and Transformations in Modern British History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This major collection of essays challenges many of our preconceptions about British political and social history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Inspired by the work of Gareth Stedman Jones, twelve leading scholars explore both the long-term structures - social, political and intellectual - of modern British history, and the forces that have transformed those structures at key moments. The result is a series of insightful, original essays presenting new research within a broad historical context. Subjects covered include the consequences of rapid demographic change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the forces shaping transnational networks, especially those between Britain and its empire; and the recurrent problem of how we connect cultural politics to social change. An introductory essay situates Stedman Jones's work within the broader historiographical trends of the past thirty years, drawing important conclusions about new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.
Structures and Transformations in Modern British History
Structures and Transformations in Modern British History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Structures and Transformations in Modern British History write by David Feldman. This book was released on 2014-01-30. Structures and Transformations in Modern British History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This major collection of essays challenges many of our preconceptions about British political and social history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Inspired by the work of Gareth Stedman Jones, twelve leading scholars explore both the long-term structures - social, political and intellectual - of modern British history, and the forces that have transformed those structures at key moments. The result is a series of insightful, original essays presenting new research within a broad historical context. Subjects covered include the consequences of rapid demographic change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the forces shaping transnational networks, especially those between Britain and its empire; and the recurrent problem of how we connect cultural politics to social change. An introductory essay situates Stedman Jones's work within the broader historiographical trends of the past thirty years, drawing important conclusions about new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.
The Histories of Raphael Samuel
The Histories of Raphael Samuel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Histories of Raphael Samuel write by Sophie Scott-Brown. This book was released on 2017-05-12. The Histories of Raphael Samuel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934–1996) in relation to his distinctive form of activist politics as they developed from youthful Cold War communism to the first British New Left, 1960s radicalism to the 1980s history wars. As the catalyst behind the History Workshop movement, Samuel championed the democratisation of history-making and practised an eclectic form of people’s history in his own work. His unique approach was controversial, drawing impassioned responses from across the ideological spectrum, the most sustained critique often coming from his left-wing contemporaries. It is argued here that this compelling figure has been unjustly neglected and that he continues to offer important insights into the politics of history-making in a post-Marxist world.
British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940
British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940 write by Rosie Dias. This book was released on 2018-10-04. British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Taking these productions as its archive, British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1775-1930 includes a collection of essays from different disciplines that consider the role of British women's cultural practices and productions in conceptualising empire. While such productions have started to receive greater scholarly attention, this volume uses a more self-conscious lens of gender to question whether female cultural work demonstrates that colonial women engaged with the spaces and places of empire in distinctive ways. By working across disciplines, centuries and different colonial geographies, the volume makes an exciting and important contribution to the field by demonstrating the diverse ways in which European women shaped constructions of empire in the modern period.
Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000
Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 write by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite. This book was released on 2018-03-01. Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing ways. Using self-narratives drawn from a wide range of sources - the raw materials of sociological studies, transcripts from oral history projects, Mass Observation, and autobiography - the book examines class identities and narratives of social change between 1968 and 2000, showing that by the end of the period, class was often seen as an historical identity, related to background and heritage, and that many felt strict class boundaries had blurred quite profoundly since 1945. Class snobberies 'went underground', as many people from all backgrounds began to assert that what was important was authenticity, individuality, and ordinariness. In fact, Sutcliffe-Braithwaite argues that it is more useful to understand the cultural changes of these years through the lens of the decline of deference, which transformed people's attitudes towards class, and towards politics. The study also examines the claim that Thatcher and New Labour wrote class out of politics, arguing that this simple - and highly political - narrative misses important points. Thatcher was driven by political ideology and necessity to try to dismiss the importance of class, while the New Labour project was good at listening to voters - particularly swing voters in marginal seats - and echoing back what they were increasingly saying about the blurring of class lines and the importance of ordinariness. But this did not add up to an abandonment of a majoritarian project, as New Labour reoriented their political project to emphasize using the state to empower the individual.
