ISBN:
9780511550409
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 346 pages)
Series Statement:
Past and present publications
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/4/094109034
Keywords:
Great Britain / Parliament / Reform
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Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Geschichte 1780-1850
;
Politik
;
Politische Reform
;
Großbritannien
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Great Britain / Politics and government / 19th century
;
Great Britain / Politics and government / 1760-1820
;
Großbritannien
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Konferenzschrift 2000
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Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Großbritannien
;
Politische Reform
;
Geschichte 1780-1850
Abstract:
This book takes a look at the 'age of reform', from 1780 when reform became a common object of aspiration, to the 1830s - the era of the 'Reform Ministry' and of the Great Reform Act of 1832 - and beyond, when such aspirations were realized more frequently. It pays close attention to what contemporaries termed 'reform', identifying two strands, institutional and moral, which interacted in complex ways. Particular reforming initiatives singled out for attention include those targeting parliament, government, the law, the Church, medicine, slavery, regimens of self-care, opera, theatre, and art institutions, while later chapters situate British reform in its imperial and European contexts. An extended introduction provides a point of entry to the history and historiography of the period. The book will therefore stimulate fresh thinking about this formative period of British history
Description / Table of Contents:
'Reform' in English public life : the fortunes of a word / Joanna Innes -- Parliament, the state, and 'old corruption' : conceptualizing reform, c. 1790-1832 / Philip Harling -- 'Old wine in new bottles' : the concept and practice of law reform, c. 1780-1830 / Michael Lobban -- English 'church reform' revisited, 1780-1840 / Arthur Burns -- Medicine in the age of reform / Ian A. Burney -- British antislavery reassessed / David Turley -- 'The age of physiological reformers' : rethinking gender and domesticity in the age of reform / Kathryn Gleadle -- Reforming the aristocracy : opera and elite culture, 1780-1860 / Jennifer L. Hall-Witt -- Reform on the London stage / Katherine Newey -- Reforming culture : national art institutions in the age of reform / Holger Hoock -- Irish reform between the 1798 rebellion and the great famine / Jennifer Ridden -- Empire and parliamentary reform : the 1832 reform act revisited / Miles Taylor -- Reforms, movements for reform, and possibilities of reform : comparing Britain and continental Europe / Jonathan Sperber
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511550409
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511550409
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