Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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 ...