Author: Alexander WilsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Chartist Movement in Scotland
Author: Alexander WilsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Chartism in Scotland
Author: W. Hamish FraserPublisher: Chartist Studies
ISBN: 9780850366662
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Placing the Chartist movement within a particular context, this study delves into the intellectual debates on British relations, the place of religion in the state, relationships between social classes, and the nature of politics from the 1830s to 1850s. The process of industrialization is reviewed, revealing how it increased in speed and created huge changes for working people across the country. The Chartist press and local newspapers are utilized, shedding new light on the activities of Chartists from the north to the south. Comparing its subject to the movement in England, this comprehensive reexamination challenges the long-held view that Chartism in Scotland was markedly moderate in its demands and approaches.
Women in the Chartist Movement
Author: J. SchwarzkopfPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230379613
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Towards the end of the 1830s, large numbers of British working men and women rallied round the People's Charter in order to improve their living conditions through universal suffrage. Women's wide-ranging support of Chartism encompassed everything from extensive lecturing tours to domestic servicing of politically active menfolk. In this first full-length study of women's involvement in Chartism, the author demonstrates that, in their struggle, which lasted for more than a decade, Chartist men and women enforced in their own ranks standards of respectable man- and womanhood that were to shape working-class gender relations well into this century.
The Chartist Movement
Author: Mark HovellPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719000881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Chartism was a Victorian era working class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. The term "Chartism" is the umbrella name for numerous loosely coordinated local groups, often named "Working Men's Association," articulating grievances in many cities from 1837. Its peak activity came in 1839, 1842 and 1848. It began among skilled artisans in small shops, such as shoemakers, printers, and tailors. The movement was more aggressive in areas with many distressed handloom workers, such as in Lancashire and the Midlands. It began as a petition movement which tried to mobilize "moral force", but soon attracted men who advocated strikes, General strikes and physical violence, such as Feargus O'Connor and known as "physical force" chartists."--Wikipedia
The Chartist Movement in Scotland
Author: Alexander WilsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719004117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The People's Charter; with the Address to the Radical Reformers of Great Britain and Ireland, and a Brief Sketch of Its Origin
Author: Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850
Author: Tom M. DevinePublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788854063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the fastest in western Europe, migration and emigration accelerated and the traditional way of life in the Highland and Lowland countryside was brought to an end through the pressures of market demand and landlord strategy. Such a major upheaval created increased social tension. Conflict and Stabilitiy in Scottish Society challenges the previously accepted view that this major upheaval in Scottish life did not stimulate much unrest and that a modern industrial society developed relatively smoothly. The papers here, given at the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar at Strathclyde University in 1988–89, suggest that protest was more common, more enduring and more diverse than is usually supposed.
A People's History of Scotland
Author: Chris BamberyPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781686548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era. With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinary people at home, from the poets Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid to campaigners such as John Maclean and Helen Crawfurd. This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice. Fully updated to include the rise of the SNP post 2014.
A History of the Chartist Movement
Author: Julius WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Chartist Revolution
Author: Rob SewellPublisher: Wellred Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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.