› › Radical Politics 1790 1900

Radical Underworld

Author : Iain McCalman

Publisher : CUP Archive

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 36,96 MB

Release : 1988-03-03

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521307550

Get eBook

Book Description

This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of theunderground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between "high" and "low" culture, McCalman illuminates the darker, more populist sides of Romanticism. Radical Underworld broadens the conventional boundaries ofpopular politics and culture by exploring a political underworld connected with poverty, crime, prophetic religion, and literary culture.





Unrespectable Radicals?

Author : Paul A. Pickering

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 45,20 MB

Release : 2016-02-24

Category : History

ISBN : 1317004248

Get eBook

Book Description

In 1988 Iain McCalman's seminal work, Radical Underworld, unravelled the complex and clandestine revolutionary networks of democrats that operated in London between 1790 and the beginnings of Chartism, to reveal an urban underworld of prophets, infidels, pornographers and rogue preachers where powerful satirical and subversive subcultures were developed. This present volume reflects and builds upon the diversity of McCalman's discoveries, to present fresh insights into the culture and operation of popular politics in the 'age of reform'. It is a coherent and integrated treatment of the subject that offers a window into this 'unrespectable' underworld and questions whether it was a blackguard subculture or a more complex and rich counter-culture with powerful literary, legal and political implications. This book brings together an international team of experienced scholars to explore the concepts and subjects pioneered by McCalman. The volume presents a focused and coherent review of popular politics, from the meeting rooms of a reform society and the theatre stage, to the forum of the courtroom and the depths of prison.



U.S. History

Author : P. Scott Corbett

Publisher :

Page : 1886 pages

File Size : 13,87 MB

Release : 2024-09-10

Category : History

ISBN :

Get eBook

Book Description

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.



Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832

Author : N. LoPatin

Publisher : Springer

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 45,57 MB

Release : 1998-11-16

Category : History

ISBN : 0230371027

Get eBook

Book Description

This book is the first on the creation, development and influence of popular politics, specifically the role of Political Unions, on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Political Unions and the force of public opinion played a vital role in seeing the Reform Bill through Parliament and setting England on the path of peaceful, legislative reform. Their emphasis on representing the 'industrious' classes linked the Unions to the emerging debates - political and socio-economic - in later Victorian Britain and the evolution of British participatory democracy.



Politics and the People

Author : James Vernon

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 452 pages

File Size : 50,48 MB

Release : 1993-09-02

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521420907

Get eBook

Book Description

A language of party?; 6.



An Anthology of Chartist Poetry

Author : Peter Scheckner

Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 16,96 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9780838633458

Get eBook

Book Description

Chartist poetry was written by and for workers. In contrast with the portrayal of workers by mainstream Victorian writers, Chartist verse is intellectual, complex, and socially conscious and reflects an international outlook.





Eve and the New Jerusalem

Author : Barbara Taylor

Publisher : Virago

Page : 529 pages

File Size : 15,86 MB

Release : 2016-04-07

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0349007284

Get eBook

Book Description

A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction. In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association. Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary challenge recovers the crucial connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. In doing so, it opens the way to an important re-interpretation of the socialist tradition as a whole, and contributes to the reforging of some of those early links between feminism and socialism.



High Calvinists in Action

Author : Ian J. Shaw

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 19,56 MB

Release : 2003-02-06

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0191530581

Get eBook

Book Description

This valuable contribution to the debate about the relation of religion to the modern city fills an important gap in the historiography of early nineteenth-century religious life. Although there is some evidence that strict doctrine led to a more restricted response to urban problems, extensive local and personal variations mean that simple generalizations should be avoided. Ian J.Shaw argues against earlier prejudiced views and shows that high Calvinists played a vigorous and successful part in the response of early nineteenth-century churches to the process of urbanization. The study includes six substantial case studies of ministers and their churches in Manchester and London. Four high Calvinist ministers are considered, with two studies of ministers holding to an evangelical Calvinist doctrine also included to provide instructive contrasts. Detailed social analysis of the congregations is based upon extensive use of manuscript and printed sources, sermons, and local and denominational press.