Routledge Studies in Modern British History
The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism
1st Edition
By Edward Beasley
June 28, 2018
General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same ...
The Great Church Crisis and the End of English Erastianism, 1898-1906
1st Edition
By Bethany Kilcrease
June 28, 2018
This book traces the history of the "Church Crisis", a conflict between the Protestant and Anglo-Catholic (Ritualist) parties within the Church of England between 1898 and 1906. During this period, increasing numbers of Britons embraced Anglo-Catholicism and even converted to Roman Catholicism. ...
British Student Activism in the Long Sixties
1st Edition
By Caroline Hoefferle
May 24, 2017
Based on empirical evidence derived from university and national archives across the country and interviews with participants, British Student Activism in the Long Sixties reconstructs the world of university students in the 1960s and 1970s. Student accounts are placed within the context of a wide ...
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment
1st Edition
By David M. Turner
May 24, 2017
This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in ...
Revolutionary Refugees: German Socialism in Britain, 1840-1860
1st Edition
By Christine Lattek
July 21, 2016
Tracing the development of German socialism in Britain and on the continent in the mid-nineteenth century, this is the first substantial study to combine two very important aspects: an analysis of this crucial stage in socialist political theory development and the examination of the social and ...
Violence and Crime in Nineteenth Century England: The Shadow of our Refinement
1st Edition
By J. Carter Wood
December 01, 2015
This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence through an accessible mixture of detailed empirical research and a broad survey of cutting-edge ...
Marxism in Britain: Dissent, Decline and Re-emergence 1945-c.2000
1st Edition
By Keith Laybourn
September 16, 2015
Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50,000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5,000 when it disbanded in 1991. Dissenting and Trotskyist organisations experienced a very similar ...
The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences
1st Edition
By Edward Beasley
July 27, 2012
In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the ...
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora
1st Edition
By Marika Sherwood
April 20, 2012
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the ...