Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher:
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Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Past and Present and Chartism
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Chartism
Author: Malcolm ChasePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847791360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity. Chartism: A New History is the only book to offer in-depth coverage of the entire chronological spread (1838-58) of this pivotal movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material) this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. The author deftly intertwines analysis and narrative, interspersing his chapters with short ‘Chartist Lives’, relating the intimate and personal to the realm of the social and political. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Victorian Britain, specialists, students and general readers alike.
After Chartism
Author: Margot C. FinnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Working- and middle-class radical politics in England from the fall of Chartism in 1848 to the 1870s.
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Author: thomas carlyleChartist Revolution
Author: Rob SewellPublisher: Wellred Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Chartism was the first time ever that British workers fixed their eyes on the seizure of political power: in 1839, 1842 and again in 1848. In this struggle, they conducted a class war that at different times involved general strikes, battles with the state, mass demonstrations and even armed insurrection. They forged weapons, illegally drilled their forces, and armed themselves in preparation for seizing the reins of government. Such were the early revolutionary traditions of the British working class, deliberately buried beneath a mountain of falsehoods and distortions. This book sees Chartism as an essential part of our history from which we must draw the key lessons for today.
Chartism
Author: Thomas CarlyleThe Chartists
Author: Malcolm ChasePublisher: Chartist Studies
ISBN: 9780850366259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book explores some of the main channels and by-ways in the history of Chartism--a middle class movement in mid-19th-century Britain that attempted to bring about political reform. Considering the place of Chartism within the wider framework of Victorian politics, this study also evaluates topics such as the impact of Canada's rebellions on Chartism, Chartism's endurance in Wales beyond the 1839 Rising, the role of children in campaigning, and Chartism's impact on the mid-Victorian ethos of "self-help" and the workings of parliamentary democracy. Written in an open, accessible style, this collection, firmly located within Britain's tradition of writing history from below, offers an unusually wide variety of stimulating perspectives on key issues in the history of what, effectively, was Britain's civil rights movement.
The Poetry of Chartism
Author: Mike SandersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521899184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book explores the contribution made by Chartist poetry to the struggle for fundamental democratic rights.
The Dignity of Chartism
Author: Dorothy ThompsonPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781688516
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which Chartism is understood. Reclaiming Chartism as a fully-blown working-class movement, Thompson intertwines her penetrating analyses of class with ground-breaking research uncovering the role played by women in the movement. Throughout her essays, Thompson strikes a delicate balance between down-to-the-ground accounts of local uprisings, snappy portraits of high-profile Chartist figures as well as rank-and-file men and women, and more theoretical, polemical interventions. Of particular historical and political significance is the previously unpublished substantial essay co-authored by Dorothy and Edward Thompson, a superb piece of local historical research by two social historians then on the brink of notable careers.
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