Progressive Programme for the Vestry Elections
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1894
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The Liberal Magazine
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
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Serving the Public, Building the Union: The forerunners, 1889-1928
Author : Bernard Dix
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
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Dirty Old London
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0300210221
Book Description
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details—from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet—this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
Public Opinion
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Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Periodicals
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Radical Victorians
Author : James Hobson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1399008277
Book Description
There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems they encountered. The politicians, generals and commercial classes have been well covered in popular history books, but there were also thinkers of radical and unsettling ideas who had a real influence at the time. Many were women, many from the middle and working classes, and almost all outside the power structure. They were by no means all fringe ideas either – in 1840, Queen Victoria herself attended a séance, for example. The book is a biography focussed history of some of these challenging ideas and the men and women who promoted them. It looks at radical thinkers and movers, the people who stepped outside of the social norm and propelled the Victorians towards the modern day.
Punch
Author : Mark Lemon
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Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 1895
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Socialists, Liberals and Labour
Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : London : Routledge & K. Paul : Toronto : Toronto University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1967
Category : London (England)
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The Poor and the City
Author : Michael E. Rose
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Law
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Book Description
A Christian and a Democrat
Author : John F. Woolverton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1467457485
Book Description
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.” This is the story of how the first informed the second—how his upbringing in the Episcopal Church and matriculation at the Groton School under legendary educator and minister Endicott Peabody molded Roosevelt into a leader whose politics were fundamentally shaped by the Social Gospel. A work begun by religious historian John Woolverton (1926 2014) and recently completed by James Bratt, A Christian and a Democrat is an engaging analysis of the surprisingly spiritual life of one of the most consequential presidents in US history. Reading Woolverton’s account of FDR’s response to the toxic demagoguery of his day will reassure readers today that a constructive way forward is possible for Christians, for Americans, and for the world.
