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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316946299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 316 Seiten)
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    DDC: 305.9/0691409410904
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Refugees / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Flüchtling ; Great Britain / Emigration and immigration / Government policy ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Flüchtling ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refugees - Jewish and other refugees from Nazism; Hungarians in 1956; Ugandan Asians expelled by Idi Amin; and Vietnamese 'boat people' who arrived in the wake of the fall of Saigon - Becky Taylor deftly integrates refugee history with key themes in the history of modern Britain. She thus demonstrates how refugees' experiences, rather than being marginal, were emblematic of some of the principal developments in British society. Arguing that Britain's reception of refugees was rarely motivated by humanitarianism, this book reveals the role of Britain's international preoccupations, anxieties and sense of identity; and how refugees' reception was shaped by voluntary efforts and the changing nature of the welfare state. Based on rich archival sources, this study offers a compelling new perspective on changing ideas of Britishness and the place of 'outsiders' in modern Britain
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021) , Protectionism vs internationalism: refugees from Nazism -- Post-war settlement: the Hungarians -- Rivers of blood: the Ugandan Asians -- marketisation and multiculturalism: refugees from Vietnam -- A new world order: conclusion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108769426
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 365 Seiten)
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    DDC: 782.42166092/2
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    Keywords: Beatles ; The Beatles ; Geschichte 1960-1970 ; Popular music / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Popular music / Great Britain / 1961-1970 / History and criticism ; Nineteen sixties ; Politik ; Soziokultur ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; The Beatles ; Soziokultur ; Politik ; Geschichte 1960-1970
    Abstract: Though the Beatles are nowadays considered national treasures, this book shows how and why they inspired phobia as well as mania in 1960s Britain. As symbols of modernity in the early sixties, they functioned as a stress test for British institutions and identities, at once displaying the possibilities and establishing the limits of change. Later in the decade, they developed forms of living, loving, thinking, looking, creating, worshipping and campaigning which became subjects of intense controversy. The ambivalent attitudes contemporaries displayed towards the Beatles are not captured in hackneyed ideas of the 'swinging sixties', the 'permissive society' and the all-conquering 'Fab Four'. Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary sources, The Beatles and Sixties Britain offers a new understanding of the band as existing in creative tension with postwar British society: their disruptive presence inciting a wholesale re-examination of social, political and cultural norms
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Mar 2020) , The Other Sixties : An Anti-Permissive Permissive Society? -- Society, 1963-65 : The Beatles and Modernity -- Society, 1966-70 : The Beatles Go Too Far -- Culture : The Beatles as Artists -- Politics : The Beatles, Parliament and Revolution
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108560924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 285 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Romanticism 126
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    DDC: 303.48/2410509033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1759-1835 ; Orientalism / Great Britain / History ; British / India / Intellectual life / 18th century ; British / India / Intellectual life / 19th century ; Orientalism in literature ; East and West ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Kultur ; Orientalismus ; Great Britain / Intellectual life / 18th century ; Great Britain / Intellectual life / 19th century ; India / History / British occupation, 1765-1947 / Historiography ; Great Britain / Foreign relations / India ; India / Foreign relations / Great Britain ; Großbritannien ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Orientalismus ; Geschichte 1759-1835 ; Großbritannien ; Kultur ; Orientalismus ; Geschichte 1759-1835
    Abstract: How did Britons understand their relationship with the East in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? James Watt's new study remaps the literary history of British Orientalisms between 1759, the 'year of victories' in the Seven Years' War, and 1835, when T. B. Macaulay published his polemical 'Minute on Indian Education'. It explores the impact of the war on Britons' cultural horizons, and the different and shifting ways in which Britons conceived of themselves and their nation as 'open' to the East across this period. Considering the emergence of new forms and styles of writing in the context of an age of empire and revolution, Watt examines how the familiar 'Eastern' fictions of the past were adapted, reworked, and reacted against. In doing so he illuminates the larger cultural conflict which animated a nation debating with itself about its place in the world and relation to its others
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2019) , Introduction: Britain, empire, and 'openness' to the East -- 'Those islanders' : British orientalisms and the Seven Years' War -- 'Indian details' : fictions of British India, 1774-1789 -- 'All Asia is covered in prisons' : Oriental despotism and British liberty in an age of revolutions -- 'In love with the Gopia' : Sir William Jones and his contemporaries -- 'Imperial dotage' and poetic ornament in romantic orientalist verse narrative -- Cockney translation : Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb's eastern imaginings -- 'It is otherwise in Asia' : 'character' and improvement in picaresque fiction -- Conclusion: British orientalisms, empire, and improvement
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-108-49255-3 , 978-1-108-59220-8 / (ebook) , 978-1-108-65718-1 / (ebook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 305 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 306.7680954
    Keywords: Indien Hijra ; Transsexualität ; Transvestiten ; LGBT ; Politik ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschlechterforschung ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechtsumwandlung ; Kriminalität ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Großbritannien ; Postkolonialismus ; Elite, traditionelle ; Wertvorstellung, kulturelle
    Abstract: In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual 'extinction' of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras' feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras' 'extermination'. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Part I. Solving the 'Eunuch Problem': 1. The Hijra panic; 2. An ungovernable population; 3. Hijras and Indian middle class morality; 4. The 'gradual extirpation' of the Hijra; Part II. Multiple Narratives of Hijra-Hood: 5. The Hijra archive; 6. Hijra life histories; Part III. Surviving Criminalisation and Elimination: 7. Classifying illegible bodies, contesting colonial categories; 8. Policing, evading, surviving; 9. Saving children to eliminate Hijras; 10. Conclusion; 11. Postscript: Hijras and the state in postcolonial South Asia.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108425766
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 225 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
    DDC: 305.42094409042
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1915-1933 ; Frau ; Weltkrieg ; Veteranin ; Identität ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108348935
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 226 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
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    DDC: 306.81/53094109041
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    Keywords: Women veterans / Great Britain ; Women veterans / France ; World War, 1914-1918 / Participation, Female ; Women veterans / Great Britain / Social conditions ; Women veterans / France / Social conditions ; Women / Identity ; Erster Weltkrieg ; Veteranin ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; Erster Weltkrieg ; Veteranin
    Abstract: This is the story of how women in France and Britain between 1915 and 1933 appropriated the cultural identity of female war veteran in order to have greater access to public life and a voice in a political climate in which women were rarely heard on the public stage. The 'veterans' covered by this history include former nurses, charity workers, secret service agents and members of resistance networks in occupied territory, as well as members of the British auxiliary corps. What unites these women is how they attempted to present themselves as 'female veterans' in order to gain social advantages and give themselves the right to speak about the war and its legacies. Alison S. Fell also considers the limits of the identity of war veteran for women, considering as an example the wartime and post-war experiences of the female industrial workers who led episodes of industrial action
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316779569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 404 Seiten)
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    DDC: 323/.0420830941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1976-1984 ; Youth / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Punk culture / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Punk rock music / Great Britain / History and criticism ; Jugendkultur ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Jugendkultur ; Geschichte 1976-1984
    Abstract: 'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976–84 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk rejuvenated and re-energised British youth culture, inserting marginal voices and political ideas into pop. Fanzines and independent labels flourished; an emphasis on doing it yourself enabled provincial scenes to form beyond London's media glare. This was the period of Rock Against Racism and benefit gigs for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the striking miners. Matthew Worley charts the full spectrum of punk's cultural development from the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks and Slits through the post-punk of Joy Division, the industrial culture of Throbbing Gristle and onto the 1980s diaspora of anarcho-punk, Oi! and goth. He recaptures punk's anarchic force as a medium through which the frustrated and the disaffected could reject, revolt and re-invent
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107115187 , 9781107535541 , 9781316335666
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.260973
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    Keywords: Politik ; Aging Government policy ; Ageism ; Older people Social conditions ; Older people Services for ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialpolitik ; Altern ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Altern ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialpolitik
    Abstract: "This book explores an issue central to the study of age and ageing: Do we wish to preserve old age as a discrete stage of life, to be protected by welfare policies specifically targeting 'the old'? Should old age be accorded a privileged status? This may recognise the needs of a particular age group with regard to health, income and social care. But by doing so, we support the inaccurate and possibly offensive definition of 'old age' as the stage of life beyond age 65 - a demarcation line which has no biological or cognitive significance, since human beings age at very different rates. Defining old age in this way may ghettoise and marginalise one group of people in society, encouraging prejudice against them via policies that 'single out, stigmatise and isolate the aged from the rest of society', in a way that can be seen as subtly ageist. On the other hand, should we dispense with age as a categorisation and work towards an 'age-irrelevant', 'age-neutral' or 'ageless' society - one in which individuals will be judged by the content of their character, rather than their chronological age? Is the concept of old age an outmoded relic from the past?"..
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316027059
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 234 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.874/2094109034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1865-1914 ; Geschichte ; Fatherhood / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Fatherhood / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Working class families / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Working class families / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Working class men / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Working class men / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Arbeiterklasse ; Vaterrolle ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 19th century ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 20th century ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiterklasse ; Vaterrolle ; Geschichte 1865-1914
    Abstract: A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people. Based on working-class autobiography, the book challenges dominant assumptions about absent or 'feckless' fathers, and reintegrates the paternal figure within the emotional life of families. Locating autobiography within broader social and cultural commentary, Julie-Marie Strange considers material culture, everyday practice, obligation, duty and comedy as sites for the development and expression of complex emotional lives. Emphasising the importance of separating men as husbands from men as fathers, Strange explores how emotional ties were formed between fathers and their children, the models of fatherhood available to working-class men, and the ways in which fathers interacted with children inside and outside the home. She explodes the myth that working-class interiorities are inaccessible or unrecoverable, and locates life stories in the context of other sources, including social surveys, visual culture and popular fiction
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: O father, where art thou? -- 1. Love and toil: fatherhood, providing and attachment -- 2. Love and want: unemployment, failure and the fragile father -- 3. Man and home: the inter-personal dynamics of fathers at home -- 4. Front stage values, back stage lives: family togetherness, respectability and 'real' fathers -- 5. Funny talk: laughter, family and fathering -- 6. The fond father: protection, authority, reconciliation -- Conclusion: discovering fatherhood
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107028425
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 320 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 92
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
    DDC: 306.009/034
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    Keywords: Social evolution History 19th century ; English literature 19th century ; Culture History 19th century ; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; Social evolution History ; 19th century ; English literature 19th century ; Culture History ; 19th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Kultur ; Evolutionstheorie ; Geschichte 1837-1901 ; Großbritannien ; Kultur ; Evolutionstheorie ; Geschichte 1860-1901
    Abstract: Evolution and Victorian fiction / Cannon Schmitt -- Poetry / John Holmes -- Between specimen and imagination : photography in the age of evolution / Elizabeth Edwards -- Early cinema and evolution / Oliver Gaycken -- Evolution and victorian art / Barbara Larson -- "I'm evolving!" : varieties of evolution on the Victorian stage / Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr -- Dance and evolutionary thought in late Victorian discourse / Theresa Jill Buckland -- The "non-Darwinian" revolution and the great chain of musical being / Bennett Zon -- Development and display : progressive evolution in British Victorian architecture and architectural theory / Carla Yanni -- Dramas of development : exhibitions and evolution in Victorian Britain / Sadiah Qureshi -- The popularization of evolution and victorian culture / Bernard Lightman
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Evolution and Victorian fiction , Between specimen and imagination : photography in the age of evolution , Early cinema and evolution , Evolution and victorian art , "I'm evolving!" : varieties of evolution on the Victorian stage , Dance and evolutionary thought in late Victorian discourse , The "non-Darwinian" revolution and the great chain of musical being , Development and display : progressive evolution in British Victorian architecture and architectural theory , Dramas of development : exhibitions and evolution in Victorian Britain , The popularization of evolution and victorian culture
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107447714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 276 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2010 ; Kamba ; Ethnizität ; Kolonie ; Loyalität ; Großbritannien ; Kenia
    Abstract: This book is about the creation and development of ethnic identity among the Kamba. Comprising approximately one-eighth of Kenya's population, the British considered the Kamba East Africa's premier 'martial race' by the mid-twentieth century: a people with an apparent aptitude for soldiering. The reputation, indeed, was one that Kamba leaders used to leverage financial rewards from the colonial state. However, beneath this simplistic exterior was a maelstrom of argument and debate. Men and women, young and old, Christians and non-Christians, and the elite and poor fought over the virtues they considered worthy of honor in their communities, and which of their visions should constitute 'Kamba' identity. Based on extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews, Ethnicity and Empire is one of the first books to analyze the complex process of building and shaping 'tribe' over more than two centuries. It reveals new ways to think about themes crucial to the history of colonialism: soldiering, 'loyalty', martial race, and indeed the nature of empire itself.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9781139626958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 327 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.3/620941090034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Sklaverei ; Slaveholders / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Slavery / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Slavery / Colonies / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Sklaverei ; Kolonie ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Colonies / History / 19th century ; Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Kolonie ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1800-1900
    Abstract: This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Possessing people: absentee slave-owners within British society -- Helping to make Britain great: the commercial legacies of slave-ownership in Britain -- Redefining the West India interest: politics and the legacies of slave-ownership -- Reconfiguring race: the stories the slave-owners told -- Transforming capital: slavery, family, commerce and the making of the Hibbert family -- Conclusion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1107053803 , 1107517206 , 9781107053809 , 9781107517202
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 320 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in Romanticism 105
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kitson, Peter J Forging romantic China
    DDC: 303.48/241051
    Keywords: English literature History and criticism 19th century ; Romanticism ; English literature History and criticism 18th century ; China ; Interkulturell kommunikation ; historia ; Engelsk litteratur ; historia ; Kinesiska influenser ; Romantiken ; Kulturella förbindelser ; historia ; Society ; Romanticism ; Kulturaustausch ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ; Literatur ; Englisch ; Civilization ; Civilization ; Chinese influences ; English literature ; Literature ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; China Civilization ; Great Britain Civilization ; Chinese influences ; Great Britain Civilization 18th century ; Great Britain Civilization 19th century ; China In literature ; China ; Großbritannien ; China ; Great Britain
    Abstract: "The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S.T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839-42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"--
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Thomas Percy and the forging of Romantic China -- 2. 'A wonderful stateliness': William Jones, Joshua Marshman, and the Bengal School of Sinology -- 3. 'They thought that Jesus and Confucius were alike': Robert Morrison, Malacca, and the missionary reading of China -- 4. 'Fruits of the highest culture may be improved and varied by foreign grafts': the Canton School of Romantic Sinology: Staunton and Davis -- 5. Establishing the 'Great Divide': scientific exchange and the Macartney Embassy -- 6. 'You will be taking a trip into China, I suppose': kowtows, tea cups, and the evasions of British Romantic writing on China -- 7. Chinese gardens, Confucius, and the prelude -- 8. 'Not a bit like the Chinese figures that adorn our chimney-pieces': orphans and travellers: China on stage -- Bibliography.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107055155
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 298 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/62094209034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1837 ; Arbeiterklasse ; Alltag ; Großbritannien ; Tagebuch ; Tagebuch
    Abstract: This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and Clifton's magistrate records, Carolyn Steedman gives us a unique and fascinating account of working-class living and loving, and getting and spending. Through Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, she challenges traditional accounts which she argues have overstated the importance of work to the working man's understanding of himself, as a creature of time, place and society. She shows instead that, for men like Woolley, law and fiction were just as critical as work in framing everyday life.
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    ISBN: 9780511760204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxiii, 289 pages)
    Series Statement: Critical perspectives on empire
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    Keywords: Picton, Thomas / Sir / 1758-1815 / Trials, litigation, etc ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1797-1807 ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Sklaverei ; Criminal justice, Administration of / Trinidad / History / 19th century ; Slavery / Trinidad / History / 19th century ; Sklaverei ; Kolonialismus ; Großbritannien ; Trinidad / Social conditions / 19th century ; Great Britain / Colonies / History / 19th century ; Anglophone Karibik ; Anglophone Karibik ; Kolonialismus ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1797-1807
    Abstract: In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial drama. He shows the ways in which the trial and its investigation brought empire 'home' and exposed the disjuncture between a national self-image of humane governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain's imperial regime became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial subjects began to grow
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Politics of colonial sensation; 2. A gentleman's way in the world; 3. 'Only answerable to God and conscience': justice unbounded by law; 4. Ruling narratives; 5. The radical underworld goes colonial; 6. In search of free labor; 7. Conspiracy in the archive; Epilogue: moving on
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511792700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 298 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. British and Irish history, 19th century
    Uniform Title: Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England
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    DDC: 305.5620942
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1842 ; Geschichte 1842-1844 ; Geschichte 1842-1845 ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Working class / England / History / 19th century ; Arbeiterklasse ; Wirtschaft ; Soziale Situation ; Gesellschaft ; England / Social conditions / 19th century ; England / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Quelle ; Quelle ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiterklasse ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1842-1844 ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiterklasse ; Geschichte 1842-1845 ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1842 ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Frederich Engels (1820–1895) was a German businessman and political theorist renowned as one of the intellectual founders of communism. In 1842 Engels was sent to Manchester to oversee his father's textile business, and he lived in the city until 1844. This volume, first published in German in 1845, contains his classic and highly influential account of working-class life in Manchester at the height of its industrial supremacy. Engels' highly detailed descriptions of urban conditions and contrasts between the different classes in Manchester were informed from both his own observations and his contacts with local labour activists and Chartists. Extensively researched and written with sympathy for the working class, this volume is one Engels' best known works and remains a vivid portrait of contemporary urban England. This volume is reissued from the English edition of 1892, which was translated by noted social activist Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky (1859–1932)
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Industrial Proletariat -- 2. The Great Towns -- 3. Competition -- 4. Irish Immigration -- 5. Results -- 6. Single Branches of Industry - Factory Hands -- 7. The Remaining Branches of Industry -- 8. Labour Movements -- 9. The Mining Proletariat -- 10. The Agricultural Proletariat -- 11. Attitude of the Bourgeoisie towards the Proletariat
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    ISBN: 9780511805868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online Ressource (xxi, 291 Seiten)
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    DDC: 304.80941/09034
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    Keywords: Commonwealth ; Geschichte 1850-1914 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; British / Foreign countries / History ; Auswanderung ; Globalisierung ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Emigration and immigration / History ; Great Britain / Commerce / History ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Auswanderung ; Commonwealth ; Globalisierung ; Geschichte 1850-1914
    Abstract: Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today
    Description / Table of Contents: Reconfiguring empire: the British world -- Networks and the British world -- Overseas migration -- Markets and consumer cultures -- Information and investment -- Conclusion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511763021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages)
    Series Statement: Critical perspectives on empire
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    DDC: 303.48/24096
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    Keywords: Friendship / Oceania ; Friendship / Great Britain ; East and West ; Freundschaft ; Kulturkontakt ; Großbritannien ; Ozeanien ; Electronic books ; Ozeanien ; Kulturkontakt ; Freundschaft
    Abstract: When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: amicable signs; Part I. Making Contact: 1. Crowd scenes; 2. Receiving strangers; 3. Calculated affection; 4. Performance anxieties; Part II. Particular Friendships: 5. Fellow traveling; 6. Ruinous friendships; 7. Prizeable companions
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    ISBN: 9780511562242
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 363 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.3/75/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919 ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte ; Propaganda, British / History / 20th century ; Propaganda ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Foreign relations / 1910-1936 ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Propaganda ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919
    Abstract: This book traces the origins and early development of what are today loosely termed Britain's Overseas Information Services. It examines how, at the end of the First World War, the British government came to forfeit the considerable lead it had established in propaganda since 1914, and the reasons why it had gradually to re-enter the field during the inter-war years as a direct response to totalitarianism. It surveys the pioneering work of the Foreign Office News Department and its important press office, the commercial propaganda conducted by the Empire Marketing Board and the Travel Association, the foundation and rapid peacetime growth of the British Council to conduct 'cultural diplomacy', and the beginning of the BBC's World Service with the inauguration of foreign-language broadcasts in 1938
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511508174 , 9780511508172
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 287 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dijk, Teun Adrianus van, 1943- Society and discourse
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Großbritannien ; Iraq War, 2003-2011 Language ; Discourse analysis Social aspects ; Context (Linguistics) ; Context (Linguistics) ; Discourse analysis ; Social aspects ; Language and languages ; Sprachgebrauch ; Situativer Kontext ; Diskursanalyse ; Parlamentsdebatte ; Irakkrieg ; Tekstwetenschap ; Sociale aspecten ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Iraq ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Van Dijk presents a new theory of context that explains how text and talk are adapted to their social environment. He argues that instead of the usual direct relationship being established between society and discourse, this influence is indirect and depends on how language users themselves 'define' the communicative situation. The new concept van Dijk introduces for such definitions is that of context models. These models control all language production and understanding and explain how discourse is made appropriate in each situation. They are the missing link between language and society so far ignored in pragmatics and sociolinguistics. In this interdisciplinary book, the new theory of context is developed by examining the analysis of the structure of social situations in social psychology and sociology and their cultural variation in anthropology. The theory is applied to the domain of politics, including the debate about the war in Iraq, where political leaders' speeches serve as a case study for detailed contextual analysis."--Jacket
    Abstract: Preface vii -- 1. Introduction 1 -- 2. Context and social cognition 29 -- 3. Context, situation and society 86 -- 4. Context and culture 154 -- 5. Context and politics: the Iraq debate in the British parliament 213 -- 6. Conclusions 248 -- References 256 -- Subject index 278 -- Author index 283.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-277) and indexes
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511804366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 235 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 306.20941/09033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1758-1834 ; Protestbewegung ; Sozialpsychologie ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second, it shows how that logic yields superior explanations of the dynamics in such events, both individually and in the aggregate. Third, it illustrates its methods and arguments by means of detailed analyses of contentious events in Great Britain from 1758 to 1834.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139167390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 193 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
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    Keywords: Politische Einstellung ; Familie ; Politische Sozialisation ; Politische Beteiligung ; Politische Soziologie ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: People decide about political parties by taking into account the preferences, values, expectations, and perceptions of their family, friends, colleagues, and neighbours. As most people live with others, members of their households influence each other's political decisions. How and what they think about politics and what they do are the outcomes of social processes. Applying varied statistical models to data from extensive German and British household surveys, this book shows that wives and husbands influence each other; young adults influence their parents, especially their mothers. Wives and mothers sit at the centre of households: their partisanship influences the partisanship of everyone else, and the others affect them. Politics in households interacts with competition among the political parties to sustain bounded partisanship. People ignore one of the major parties and vary their preference of its major rival over time. Election campaigns reinforce these choices.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521560856 , 0521560853 , 0521024463 , 9780521024464
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 317 Seiten
    Edition: Digitally printed first paperback version
    DDC: 306.4/7
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Geschichte 1650-1800 ; Engels ; Kunstbevordering ; Letterkunde ; Littérature anglaise - 16e siècle - Histoire et critique ; Littérature anglaise - 17e siècle - Histoire et critique ; Littérature anglaise - 17e siècle - Histoire et critique ; Littérature anglaise - 18e siècle - Histoire et critique ; Littérature anglaise - 18e siècle - Histoire et critique ; Littérature et société - Angleterre - Histoire ; Mécénat - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire ; Politiek ; Politique et littérature - Angleterre - Histoire ; Politique et littérature - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire ; Écrivains et mécènes - Angleterre - Histoire - 17e siècle ; Écrivains et mécènes - Angleterre - Histoire - 18e siècle ; Écrivains et mécènes - Grande-Bretazgne - Histoire ; Englisch ; Geschichte ; Literatur ; Politik ; Authors and patrons History 17th century ; Authors and patrons History 18th century ; English literature History and criticism 18th century ; English literature History and criticism Early modern, 1500-1700 ; Literary patrons ; Literature and society History ; Politics and literature History 17th century ; Politics and literature History 18th century ; Schriftsteller ; Mäzenatentum ; Patronage ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Mäzenatentum ; Geschichte 1650-1800 ; Großbritannien ; Schriftsteller ; Mäzenatentum ; Geschichte 1650-1800 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Patronage ; Geschichte 1650-1800
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511484889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 259 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 53
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    DDC: 392.5
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte ; Honeymoons / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Honeymoons in literature ; English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism ; Literatur ; Hochzeitsreise ; Hochzeit ; Englisch ; Hochzeit ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / History / Victoria, 1837-1901 ; Großbritannien ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Hochzeitsreise ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Hochzeit ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Hochzeitsreise ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Hochzeit ; Geschichte 1800-1900
    Abstract: While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the eighteenth century, the ritual increased in popularity throughout the Victorian period, until by the end of the century it became a familiar accompaniment to the wedding for all but the poorest classes. Using letters and diaries of 61 real-life honeymooning couples, as well as novels from Frankenstein to Middlemarch that feature honeymoon scenarios, Michie explores the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing that, with its emphasis on privacy and displacement, the honeymoon was central to emerging ideals of conjugality and to ideas of the couple as a primary social unit
    Description / Table of Contents: Reading honeymoons -- Reorientations -- Carnal knowledges -- Honeymoon gothic -- Capturing Martha
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511560903
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 298 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge social and cultural histories 4
    DDC: 306.2/0941/09031
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Stadt ; Politische Kultur ; Bürgerbeteiligung ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: The Politics of Commonwealth offers a major reinterpretation of urban political culture in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Examining what it meant to be a freeman and citizen in early modern England, it also shows the increasingly pivotal place of cities and boroughs within the national polity. It considers the practices that constituted urban citizenship as well as its impact on the economic, patriarchal and religious life of towns and the larger commonwealth. The author has recovered the language and concepts used at the time, whether by eminent citizens like Andrew Marvell or more humble tradesmen and craftsmen. Unprecedented in terms of the range of its sources and freshness of its approach, the book reveals a dimension of early modern culture that has major implications for how we understand the English state, economy and 'public sphere'; the political upheavals of the mid-seventeenth-century and popular political participation more generally.
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    ISBN: 0511115431 , 9780511115431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 643 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy
    DDC: 305.5/13/0941
    Keywords: Social mobility ; Minorities ; Minorities ; Minorities Government policy ; Minorities Government policy ; Social mobility ; Sociale mobiliteit ; Vergelijkend onderzoek ; Soziale Mobilität ; Ethnizität ; Minorities ; Government policy ; Social mobility ; Minderheden ; Overheidsbeleid ; Electronic books ; Minorities ; Great Britain ; United States ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Ruling an empire, governing a multinational state: the impact of Britain's historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime / Mary J. Hickman -- American diversity and the 2000 census / Nathan Glazer -- Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of blacks in Europe and the Americas / Orlando Patterson -- Ethnicity as social capital: community-based institutions and embedded networks of social relations / Min Zhou -- Intergeneration mobility and racial inequality in education and earnings / Linda Datcher Loury -- Social integration and social mobility: spatial segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean population in Britain / Ceri Peach -- Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital / David M. Cutler [and others] -- Family formation in multicultural Britain: diversity and changes / Richard Berthoud -- Educational progress for African-Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950s to the 1990s: the interaction of ancestry and class / Michael Hout -- The educational attainments of ethnic minorities in Britain / Tariq Modood -- Why America's black-white school achievement gap persists / Ronald F. Ferguson -- Networks and niches: the continuing significance of ethnic connections / Roger Waldinger -- Nonwhite origins, Anglo destinations: immigrants in the USA and Britain / Suzanne Model -- Social mobility of ethnic minorities / Anthony Heath, Dorren McMahon -- Ethnic minorities, employment, self-employment, and social mobility in postwar Britain / Vaughan Robinson, Rina Valeny -- Ethnicity and political mobilization in Britain / Tariq Modood -- Political institutions and minority mobility in the USA / Peter Skerry -- Race, state, and policy: the development of employment discrimination policy in the USA and Britain / Robert Lieberman -- Regime effects: ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy in the USA and Britain / Steven M. Teles, Robert Mickey, Fawzia S. Ahmed -- Race, inequality and justice in the USA: some social-philosophic reflections / Glenn C. Loury -- Achieving racial equality / Bhikhu Parekh.
    Abstract: The causes and consequences of social mobility are a central area of study within social sciences, and the differing levels of economic development between ethnic groups is an issue of concern for policy-makers. This book provides a comparative analysis of these and related issues within the US and the UK
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521817684 , 9780521520898
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 171 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism
    DDC: 305.8/00941
    Keywords: Race relations ; Multiculturalism ; Multiculturalism ; Greenwich (London, England) Race relations ; Großbritannien ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Rassismus ; Ausländerpolitik
    Abstract: Stephen Lawrence's murder led to the widest review of institutional racism seen in the UK. Sections of the white working-class communities near the scene of the murder, however, were deeply hostile to multiculturalist initiatives. Drawing on extensive research, the book relates these phenomena to the 'backlash' to multiculturalism internationally evident
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Politics and 'backlash' on the large stage; 3 Greenwich and its racial murders; 4 Narrative, counter-narrative and the boundaries of legitimate discourse; 5 Residence and resistance: the case of the Eltham Tenants Forum; 6 'Race' and 'culture' in education: from neighbourhood schools to the multicultural highway; 7 Backlash, multicultural politics and the global turbine; Select bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-165) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139140348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 378 pages)
    Series Statement: The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
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    DDC: 305.235/089
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    Keywords: Psychologie ; Minority teenagers / Research ; Minority teenagers / United States ; Minority teenagers / Great Britain ; Ethnicity / United States / Psychological aspects ; Ethnicity / Great Britain / Psychological aspects ; Ethnopsychology ; Nationale Minderheit ; Psychologie ; Großbritannien ; USA ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Nationale Minderheit ; Psychologie ; USA ; Nationale Minderheit ; Psychologie
    Abstract: Research clearly indicates that ethnic groups differ significantly on levels of mental and physical health, antisocial behavior, and educational attainment. This book explains these variations among ethnic groups with respect to their psychological and social functioning and tests competing hypotheses about the mechanisms that might cause the functioning to be better, worse, or different in pattern from other groups. Attention is paid to educational attainments, antisocial behavior, schizophrenia and suicide, and to the complex and changing patterns of ethnic identity. The book also focuses on evidence on risk and protective factors that is used systematically to ask whether such factors might account for the differences in both migration histories and ethnic mixture. It concludes with a discussion of the multiple meanings of ethnicity, the major variations among ethnic groups, and the policy implications of the findings discussed in the book
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511615580
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8/00941/09045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1945-2003 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Blacks / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Blacks / Great Britain / Politics and government ; Blacks / France / History / 20th century ; Blacks / France / Politics and government ; Rassenpolitik ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Race relations / History / 20th century ; Great Britain / Race relations / Government policy ; France / Race relations / History / 20th century ; France / Race relations / Government policy ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Frankreich ; Geschichte 1945-2003 ; Großbritannien ; Rassenpolitik ; Frankreich ; Geschichte 1945-2003
    Abstract: Britain and France have developed substantially different policies to manage racial tensions since the 1960s, in spite of having similar numbers of post-war ethnic minority immigrants. This book provides the first detailed historical exploration of race policy development in these two countries. In this path-breaking work, Bleich argues against common wisdom that attributes policy outcomes to the role of powerful interest groups or to the constraints of existing institutions, instead emphasizing the importance of frames as widely-held ideas that propelled policymaking in different directions. British policymakers' framing of race and racism principally in North American terms of color discrimination encouraged them to import many policies from across the Atlantic. For decades after WWII, by contrast, French policy leaders framed racism in terms influenced largely by their Vichy past, which encouraged policies designed primarily to counter hate speech while avoiding the recognition of race found across the English Channel
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139087315
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 370 Seiten)
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    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social structure ; Agent (Philosophy) ; Self-knowledge, Theory of ; Social perception ; Interviews / Great Britain ; Individuum ; Sozialstruktur ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Soziologie ; Verhalten ; Großbritannien ; Soziologie ; Sozialstruktur ; Individuum ; Verhalten ; Soziale Wahrnehmung
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511550409
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 346 pages)
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
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    DDC: 303.48/4/094109034
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    Keywords: Great Britain / Parliament / Reform ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1780-1850 ; Politik ; Politische Reform ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Politics and government / 19th century ; Great Britain / Politics and government / 1760-1820 ; Großbritannien ; Konferenzschrift 2000 ; 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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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521823943
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 346 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
    DDC: 303.484094109034
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    Keywords: Great Britain Reform ; Geschichte 1780-1850 ; Politische Reform ; Great Britain Politics and government 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Konferenzschrift 2000 ; Konferenzschrift 2000 ; Konferenzschrift 2000 ; Konferenzschrift ; Bibliografie ; Konferenzschrift 2000 ; Konferenzschrift ; Bibliografie ; Konferenzschrift 2000 ; Großbritannien ; Politische Reform ; Geschichte 1780-1850
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511612299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 110 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 41
    DDC: 306/.0942/09033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1780-1840 ; Soziale Unruhen ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2000, examines the diversity of protest from 1780 to 1840 and how it altered during this period of extreme change. This textbook covers all forms of protest, including the Gordon Riots of 1780, food riots, Luddism, the radical political reform movement and Peterloo in 1819, and the less well researched anti-enclosure, anti-New Poor Law riots, arson and other forms of 'terroristic' action, up to the advent of Chartism in the 1830s. Archer evaluates the problematic nature of source materials and conflicting interpretations leading to debate, and reviews the historiography and methodology of protest studies. This study of popular protest gives a unique perspective on the social history and conditions of this crucial period and will provide a valuable resource for students and teachers alike.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139106672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 220 pages)
    DDC: 305.42/094
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    Keywords: Frauenbewegung ; Politisches Recht ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Staatsangehörigkeit ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Dänemark
    Abstract: Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark. Birte Siim argues that France still suffers from the contradictions of pro-natalist policy, and that Britain is only just starting to re-conceptualise the male-breadwinner model that is still a dominant feature. In her examination of the dual-breadwinner model in Denmark, Siim presents research about Scandinavian social policy and makes an important and timely contribution to debates in political sociology, social policy and gender studies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511011628 , 0511488890 , 0521590442 , 0521599695 , 9780511011627 , 9780511488894 , 9780521590440 , 9780521599696
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 246 pages)
    DDC: 394.1/2/0941
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    Keywords: Habitudes alimentaires / Angleterre ; Restaurants / Angleterre / Aspect social ; Consommateurs / Comportement / Angleterre ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions ; Consumer behavior ; Food habits ; Manners and customs ; Restaurants / Social aspects ; Eetgewoonten ; Restaurants ; Consumentengedrag ; Cultuursociologie ; Soziologie ; Essgewohnheit ; Restaurant ; Gesellschaft ; Food habits ; Restaurants Social aspects ; Consumer behavior ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Restaurant ; Soziologie ; Essgewohnheit ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Großbritannien ; Essgewohnheit ; Soziologie ; Großbritannien ; Essgewohnheit ; Restaurant ; Großbritannien ; Restaurant ; Verbraucherverhalten
    Note: Includes bibliographical (pages 234-242) references and index , 1 - Studying eating out -- - pt. I. - Modes of provision -- - 2 - development of the habit of eating out in the UK -- - 3 - meanings of eating out -- - pt. II. - Access -- - 4 - Patterns of eating out -- - 5 - Domestic organisation, family meals and eating out -- - pt. III. - Delivery -- - 6 - Personal service in public and private settings -- - 7 - Last suppers -- - pt. IV. - Enjoyment: the attractions of eating out -- - 8 - Eating out as a source of gratification -- - 9 - enjoyment of meal events -- - pt. V. - Conclusion -- - 10 - Eating out and theories of consumption
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511019661 , 9780511032868 , 9780521657013 , 0521657016 , 9780521651721 , 0521651727 , 9780511605758 , 0511605757 , 9780511019661 , 0511048092 , 9780511048098 , 0511150709 , 9780511150708 , 051111768X , 9780511117688 , 0511032862
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 349 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Price, Richard, 1944- British society, 1680-1880
    DDC: 306.0942
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Economic history ; Social conditions ; Sociaal-economische geschiedenis ; Great Britain Economic conditions ; 18th century ; Great Britain Economic conditions ; 19th century ; Great Britain Social conditions ; 18th century ; Great Britain Social conditions ; 19th century ; Grande-Bretagne Conditions économiques ; 18e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne Conditions économiques ; 19e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales ; 18e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales ; 19e siècle ; Great Britain ; Grande-Bretagne ; Conditions sociales ; 18e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne ; Conditions sociales ; 19e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne ; Conditions économiques ; 18e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne ; Conditions économiques ; 19e siècle ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain Economic conditions 18th century ; Great Britain Economic conditions 19th century ; Great Britain Social conditions 18th century ; Great Britain Social conditions 19th century ; Great Britain ; Großbritannien ; Grande-Bretagne ; Conditions sociales ; 18e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne ; Conditions sociales ; 19e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne ; Conditions économiques ; 18e siècle ; Grande-Bretagne ; Conditions économiques ; 19e siècle ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A sustained, radical new interpretation of British history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by a senior social historian confronting and questioning dominant interpretations. Scholars and students will find much of interest in this elegantly written and lucidly organised study
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511622168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (v, 112 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 33
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    DDC: 306.4/83/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1750-1914 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Sport ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Sport ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1750-1914
    Abstract: This book provides a concise, up-to-date survey of one of the most dramatic changes in the cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, the radical transformation which occurred in the extent and nature of its participation in sport. Neil Tranter focuses on the issues which have attracted most interest from historians of sport and poses a number of important questions: did levels of involvement in sport increase or decrease during the initial stages of urban-industrialisation? When did the new sporting culture first emerge, and what were its principal features and the mechanisms through which it spread? What were the main aims of the participants and supporters, and to what extent were these aims achieved? The author also discusses the economic consequences of this cultural change and the examines the role of women in this sporting 'revolution' and asks why their participation was so much more restricted than that of men
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139171175
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vi, 114 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 32
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    DDC: 305.23/0942
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1990 ; Geschichte ; Kind ; Children / England / History ; Children and adults / England / History ; Kind ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Kind ; Geschichte 1880-1990
    Abstract: This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and the main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood, child-parent relations, social policy, schooling, leisure and the thesis that modern childhood is 'disappearing'. The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with a reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years. The author draws his material not only from historians but also from sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and children's rights activists. Thus he successfully shows how much of our 'modern' understanding of childhood and of children results from both an historical and a social scientific understanding
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    Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521497418 , 9780521497411
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 301 Seiten , 8°
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 306.4208931073
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    Keywords: Germans History ; 20th century ; United States ; Germans History ; 20th century ; Great Britain ; Brain drain History ; 20th century ; Germany ; Brain drain History ; 20th century ; United States ; Brain drain History ; 20th century ; Great Britain ; Auswanderung ; Wissenschaftsgeschichte ; Intellektuelle ; Intelligenz ; Emigration ; Wissenschaftsgeschichte ; Nationalsozialismus ; Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen ; United States Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; History ; 20th century ; Great Britain Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Deutschland ; Exil ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Großbritannien ; Deutsche ; Österreicher ; Wissenschaft ; Geistesleben ; Auswirkung ; Geschichte 1933-1970 ; Österreich ; Judenverfolgung ; Flucht
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511581946
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages)
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    DDC: 305.42/0941
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    Keywords: Social Democratic Federation / History ; Social Democratic Federation ; Geschichte 1884-1911 ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Women and socialism / Great Britain / History ; Women socialists / Great Britain / History ; Feminism / Great Britain / History ; Women / Political activity / Great Britain / History ; Frauenemanzipation ; Frau ; Sozialismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Großbritannien ; Frauenbewegung ; Sozialismus ; Geschichte 1884-1911 ; Social Democratic Federation ; Frauenbewegung ; Geschichte 1884-1911 ; Social Democratic Federation ; Frau ; Geschichte 1884-1911 ; Social Democratic Federation ; Frauenemanzipation ; Geschichte 1884-1911
    Abstract: This 1996 book takes a look at the relationship between socialism and feminism in the years before the First World War through a detailed examination of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), Britain's first Marxist party. It reassesses the history of the SDF, exploring for the first time SDF ideas and practice on issues such as marriage and 'free love', women and work, and the suffrage, as well as the attitudes taken to women and their potential as socialists. Dr Hunt shows how the SDF came to officially equivocate on the woman question and how this shaped what it meant to be a socialist woman in the following years. Through this fascinating examination of the links and antagonisms between the feminist and socialist movements, Dr Hunt not only reclaims the history of a forgotten group of socialist women, but also sheds light on the perennial debate about the comparative significance of sex and class in defining political identity
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511582240
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 704 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 27
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    DDC: 304.6/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1860-1940 ; Geschichte ; Fertility, Human / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Fertility, Human / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Social classes / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Social classes / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Sex role / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Sex role / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Bevölkerungswachstum ; Soziale Schichtung ; Geburtenziffer ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Population / History / 19th century ; Great Britain / Population / History / 20th century ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Geburtenziffer ; Soziale Schichtung ; Geschichte 1860-1940 ; Großbritannien ; Bevölkerungswachstum ; Soziale Schichtung ; Geschichte 1860-1940
    Abstract: This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The construction and the study of the fertility decline in Britain: social science and history -- 2. Social classification of occupations and the GRO in the nineteenth century -- 3. Social classification and nineteenth-century naturalistic social science -- 4. The emergence of a social explanation of class inequalities among environmentalists, 1901-1904 -- 5. The emergence of the professional model as the official system of social classification, 1905-1928 -- 6. A test of the coherence of the professional model of class-differential fertility decline -- 7. Multiple fertility declines in Britain: occupational variation in completed fertility and nuptiality -- 8. How was fertility controlled? The spacing versus stopping debate and the culture of abstinence -- 9. A general approach to fertility change and the history of falling fertilities in England and Wales -- 10. Social class, communities, gender and nationalism in the study of fertility change
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139052542
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 301 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 306.4/2/08931073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Wissenschaftler ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; Nationalsozialismus ; Deutsche ; Exil ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien ; USA
    Abstract: The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany - a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised. The volume challenges the focus of earlier work on the 'intellectual migration' on losses (for German science) and gains (for British and American science). Instead, the authors proceed from the assumption that the sciences are open, dynamic, and historically contingent systems, and explore the multiple, complex interactions of biographical, social, and cultural circumstances with changes - or lack of change - in the émigrés' scientific thinking and research.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511622175
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 428 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/5
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1780-1840 ; Mittelstand ; Politik ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in underlying transformations of social structure - in this case industrialisation, which supposedly created and empowered the middle class - but rather in changing political configurations. Firmly grounded in a close reading of an extensive array of sources, and supported by comparative perspectives on France and America, the book offers a nuanced model for the interplay between social reality, politics, and the languages of class.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511553707
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 329 pages)
    DDC: 820.9/355/09034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-1900 ; Kulturpolitik ; Geistesleben ; Literatur ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion of the 'New Woman', the reconstruction of masculinities, and of feminism and empire. The imperialist theme is pursued in essays on Yeats and Ireland, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the figure of the vampire. The rise of socialism and psychoanalysis, and the relationship between nascent modernism and late twentieth-century postmodernism are also addressed in this radical account.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 235 pages)
    DDC: 306/.0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Ethnologie ; Afrika ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Jack Goody's book explores the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its concerns interacted with the political and ideological debate of the interwar years. It is a study of the different ideological and intellectual approaches adopted by the emerging subject of social anthropology and how far these views were incorporated into and defined by the structures and institutions in which they developed. However it is also an analysis of how far the subject was created by its own response to key issues of the time: colonialism - specifically Africa, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody's approach is characteristically personal: Malinowski dominates the discussion, as well as Fortes, Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard, and his own experience, gathered over a wide-ranging life of fieldwork informs the conclusion of the book.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511518676
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 285 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural margins 1
    DDC: 305.800941
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    Keywords: Öffentliche Meinung ; Sexualverhalten ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a 1994 study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from literary and cultural critics, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Hall, and Gilroy, to produce detailed readings of two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black immigration (1968–72) and the legislative campaign of the late 1980s to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality. Her analysis challenges the silence on racism and homophobia in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right, and shows how demonisation of lesbians and gays depends on previous demonisations of black immigrant and criminal figures. Overall, this book offers a devastating critique of racism and homophobia in late twentieth-century Britain.
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    ISBN: 9780511558351
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Geschichte ; Race ; Physical anthropology ; Eugenics / Great Britain / History ; Eugenics / United States / History ; Racism / Great Britain / History ; Racism / United States / History ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Begriff ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Great Britain / Race relations ; United States / Race relations ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Rassismus ; Anthropologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rasse ; Begriff ; Wissenschaft ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rassismus ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte ; USA ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Großbritannien ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; USA ; Rassenfrage ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Rassenfrage ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1914-1945
    Abstract: This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors
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    ISBN: 9780511560873
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 281 pages)
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    Keywords: Society of Friends / History ; Society of Friends ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Sozialgeschichte 1650-1900 ; Geschichte ; Quakers / Great Britain / History ; Demographic transition / Great Britain ; Demographic transition / Ireland ; Quakers / Ireland / History ; Society of Friends / History ; Sozialstruktur ; Bevölkerung ; Großbritannien ; Irland ; Irland ; Großbritannien ; Britische Inseln ; Großbritannien ; Society of Friends ; Sozialstruktur ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Britische Inseln ; Society of Friends ; Bevölkerung ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Irland ; Society of Friends ; Sozialstruktur ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Society of Friends ; Sozialgeschichte 1650-1900 ; Irland ; Society of Friends ; Sozialgeschichte 1650-1900
    Abstract: In Friends in Life and Death two distinguished historians join forces to exploit the exceptional riches offered by the records of British and Irish Quakers for the student of social, demographic, and familial change during the period 1650–1900. Professor Vann and Eversley have analysed the experiences of more than 8,000 Quaker families, involving over 30,000 individuals, to produce an unparalleled study of patterns of child-bearing, marriage, and death among a major religious grouping. The authors, wherever possible, compare the Quakers in the British Isles with the contemporary population of Britain and Ireland as a whole, as well as with those of France, Québec, and the American colonies
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    ISBN: 9780511898136
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 271 pages)
    Series Statement: Comparative ethnic and race relations
    DDC: 305.8/00941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1991 ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Nationalismus ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Harry Goulbourne's theme is how post-imperial Britain has come to define the national community in terms of ethnic affinity, instead of a traditional multi-ethnic/multi-racial understanding of the nation. He argues that the continuing 'reception-experience' of non-white groups in post-war Britain not only arose out of an ethnic perception of the British nation by the indigenous population, as expressed through state action, but has also, in turn, encouraged an equally ethnic awakening or mobilisation among non-white minorities. The result is a failure to construct a common national ground or sense of community by all those claiming a formal British identity. Goulbourne draws upon a diverse literature, including race relations, politics and history. His two case studies of the Khalistan question in the Punjab and democracy in Guyana are examples of how exilic politics may affect Britain's ethnic minorities, partly as a result of the experience of exclusion from British society.
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    ISBN: 9780511598692
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/24108
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Außenpolitik ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Außenpolitik ; Außenbeziehungen ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Großbritannien ; Lateinamerika ; Latin America / Relations / Great Britain ; Great Britain / Relations / Latin America ; Great Britain / Foreign relations / 1945- ; Lateinamerika ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lateinamerika ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Großbritannien ; Außenpolitik ; Lateinamerika ; Großbritannien ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Lateinamerika ; Außenbeziehungen ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
    Abstract: British relations with Latin America have declined dramatically. The strength of British influence in Latin America in the nineteenth century could not be sustained as a consequence of the two world wars, the intervening depression and the emergence of the United States of America as the major power in the region. Since 1945, despite opportunities to re-establish its presence, Britain has seen a further decline in its relations with Latin America, and the consequences of neglect were brought home in spectacular fashion by the war between Britain and Argentina in 1982. Britain and Latin America: A Changing Relationship studies the reasons for this decline, examines the sources of friction and explores the prospect of strengthening relations in the 1990s
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    ISBN: 9780511599637
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 335 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 10
    DDC: 363.8/0942
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    Keywords: Appleby, Andrew B. ; Geschichte ; Sozialgeschichte 1500-1800 ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Epidemie ; Bevölkerungsstruktur ; Hungersnot ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Westeuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience of widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine; in this volume a team of distinguished economic, social and demographic historians analyses why. Focusing on England (whose experience is contrasted with France), the contributions combine detailed local studies of individual communities, broader analyses of the impact of hunger and disease, and methodological discussion to explore the effects of crisis mortality on early modern societies.
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    ISBN: 9780511897108
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 253 pages)
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    Keywords: Katholische Kirche ; Sozialgeschichte 1945-1986 ; Geschichte 1900-1987 ; Katholik ; Gesellschaft ; Katholizismus ; England ; Großbritannien ; Wales
    Abstract: This book is about change in the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales. It argues that in the post-war years of economic growth and expanded educational opportunities, Catholics born in Great Britain achieved rates of upward social mobility comparable to those of the general population. In so doing there arose a 'new Catholic middle class', likely to be crucial for the future of Roman Catholicism in England and Wales. However, since one quarter of English Catholics were first-generation immigrants who had experienced some downward mobility, it could not be said that English Catholics generally had experienced a 'mobility momentum' relative to the rest of the population. Apart from the effects of social change, post-war Catholicism was also transformed as a result of the religious reforms legitimated by the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s. The net effect of these social and religious forces on English Catholicism was the dissolution of the boundaries which had formerly defended a 'fortress' church in a hostile world. The book identifies this, inter alia, in the widespread heterodoxy of belief and practice, and in the decline of marital endogamy and communal involvement.
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    ISBN: 9780511572722
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 345 pages)
    DDC: 306/.362/09729
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    Keywords: Williams, Eric Eustace ; Williams, Eric Eustace ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklaverei ; Karibik ; Großbritannien ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Modern scholarship on the relationship between British capitalism and Caribbean slavery has been profoundly influenced by Eric Williams's 1944 classic, Capitalism and Slavery. The present volume represents the proceedings of a conference on Caribbean Slavery and British Capitalism convened in his honour in 1984, and includes essays on Dr Williams's scholarly work and influence. These essays, by thirteen scholars from the United States, England, Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, explore the relationship between Great Britain and her plantation slave colonies in the Caribbean.
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  • 54
    ISBN: 9780511983733
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 347 pages)
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    DDC: 364.3/092/2
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Geschichte 1650-1750 ; Geschichte 1600-1730 ; Geschichte ; Criminals / England / Biography / History and criticism ; English prose literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism ; English prose literature / 18th century / History and criticism ; Criminals / England / History / 17th century ; Criminals / England / History / 18th century ; Kriminalsoziologie ; Kriminalität ; Großbritannien ; England ; Biografie ; England ; Kriminalität ; Geschichte 1600-1730 ; Großbritannien ; Kriminalsoziologie ; Geschichte 1650-1750 ; Kriminalität ; England ; Geschichte 1650-1750
    Abstract: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publication of hundreds of pamphlets tracing the lives and misdeeds of London's most notorious rogues. Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. The author has not produced a criminal history, but an intriguing distillation of some 2,000 separate narratives describing the lives, deeds, and dying words of thieves, murderers, and various scoundrels. Lincoln Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote, and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character. He completes his treatment by showing how the pamphlets served to delineate the lines of socially acceptable behaviour. Faller has chosen his examples with skill and economy to produce a comprehensive and interesting work
    Description / Table of Contents: Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories and Two Myths of Crime. 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command ; 2. Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, and salvation -- Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner Turned Saint. 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime ; 4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man ; 5. Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond -- Palliating His Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues. 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, and things beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action ; 7. Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion ; Everyone left to his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and social critic
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    ISBN: 9781139167963
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 304 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1775-1830 ; Geschichte 1775-1830 ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: The years of the first industrial revolution saw a remarkable flowering of radical social criticism in Britain. This is a study of the ideas that emerged then and of the social and intellectual conditions from which they developed. Dr Stafford begins in Part I by presenting what will be seen as a very valuable general account of the historical and cultural setting, showing how the language of social debate had been affected by intellectual developments and the increasingly rapid transformations of society. Then in Part II he discusses ten major critics of British society, from Thomas Spence to William Cobbett, who represent a wide range of political opinion from anarchism to Tory radicalism. Dr. Stafford takes a key text by each author, sets out its argument, and analyzes it both critically and historically, showing the particular influences that shaped it and revealing the ways in which the social thought of the time resembles or diverges from our own. This book will help to recover from unwarranted neglect this important tradition of writing that did much to form subsequent thinking about society. It will make a valuable contribution to the study of the literature and the social and intellectual history of the period.
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    ISBN: 9780511898365
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 227 pages)
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Stadt ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Sozialpolitik ; Stadtentwicklung ; Kommunalpolitik ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: This book, first published in 1986, examines the race and immigration issues by considering the nature of the black 'constituency' and its political responses to issues related to the crisis of Britain's inner cities. It centrally examines black access to and integration into the public policy process and views public policy responses and how these affect black politics. American experience provides a 'model' against which the British approach is viewed. The book looks at the background to the crisis, and its roots in economic decline. It also elaborates the historical development of government policy and legislation towards race and immigration, and the impact of community relations agencies, housing and education policy, and immigrant legislation. Black political action is considered, with particular emphasis on interest-group activity and community organisation. A concluding chapter looks at various policy options affecting blacks in Britain, comparing British and American approaches to community development and participation.
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    ISBN: 9780511571404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 262 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Markt ; Theater ; USA ; Britisch-Nordamerika ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents, Professor Agnew illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters in the formations of Anglo-American market culture. Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theatre and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550 to 1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theatre. As marketing practice broke free of its traditional boundaries and restraints, it challenged longstanding popular assumptions about the constituents of value, the nature of identity, the signs of authenticity, and the limits of liability. New exchange relations bred new legal and commercial fictions to authorise them, but they also bred new doubts about the precise grounds upon which the self and its 'interests' were to be represented. Those same doubts, Professor Agnew shows, animated the theatre as well. As actors and playwrights shifted from ecclesiastical and civic drama to professional entertainments, they too devised authenticating fictions, fictions that effectively replicated the bewildering representational confusions of the new 'placeless market'.
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    ISBN: 9780511557811
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 135 pages)
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    Keywords: Rassenpolitik ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: The years 1965–8 were the 'liberal hour' for race relations policy in Britain. Laws were then enacted, enforcement agencies created, and community relations councils established. These bodies, and their personnel, have been called 'the race relations industry'. To many people, the output of this 'industry' appears disappointing relative to the input into it. This book examines a variety of optimistic assumptions about the speed with which immigrants adjust to a new environment; inadequate minority bargaining power; insufficiently speedy and decisive action by the central government; unwillingness on the part of the white majority to accept the desirability of such action; and the difficulty of fitting a race relations policy into an administrative system created to serve an ethnically homogeneous population. The policies initiated in 1965 reflected the ascendancy of liberal over conservative assumptions about race relations. Now these are under sharp attack from a radical standpoint. Promoting Racial Harmony shows how the debate has changed, drawing upon recent economic theory to formulate the issues in an original but non-technical manner.
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    ISBN: 9780511522598
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    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 325 pages)
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    DDC: 302.2/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Geschichte ; Literacy / Scotland / History / 17th century ; Literacy / Scotland / History / 18th century ; Literacy / Cross-cultural studies ; National characteristics, Scottish ; Comparative education ; Literacy / England, Northern / History ; Bildung ; Alphabetisierung ; Geschichte ; Schottland ; England ; Großbritannien ; Schottland ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; England Nord ; Alphabetisierung ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Schottland ; Bildung ; Geschichte ; Großbritannien ; Alphabetisierung ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Schottland ; Alphabetisierung ; Geschichte 1600-1800
    Abstract: Scottish education and literacy have achieved a legendary status. A campaign promoted by church and state between 1560 and 1696 is said to have produced the most literate population in the early modern world. This book sets out to test this belief by comparing the ability to read and write in Scotland with northern England in particular and with Europe and North America in general. It combines extensive statistical analysis with qualitative and theoretical discussion to produce an important argument about the significance of literacy and education for the individual and society of relevance not just to the Scottish experience but to a far broader social and geographical area
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    ISBN: 9780511560323
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 354 pages)
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    DDC: 325.42
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1861-1900 ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Binnenwanderung ; Auswanderung ; England ; Großbritannien ; Wales
    Abstract: In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four decades of the nineteenth century - some 2.3 million people. He has related the rate and timing of migration to the social and economic characteristics of the counties, which has provided answers to many of the outstanding questions in the history of English emigration, including, for example, the idea of an 'Atlantic Economy' and the extent to which Welsh migration was distinct from or integrated into the English pattern. Briefly, the book concludes that the emigrants did not, in the main, come from 'peripheral' parts of the country. Probably one half of the emigrants had known no environment other than a large town. It is likely that English and Welsh emigrants were more likely to return than emigrants from any European country. Most of the emigrants seem to have been well-informed about the costs and benefits of moving - most probably from the experience of previous emigrants. English emigration could not therefore have been a simple flight from poverty, but was rather based on a well considered decision to leave home, although not necessarily for ever.
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    ISBN: 9780511607998
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    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 193 pages)
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    DDC: 305.5/223/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte ; Nobility / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Adel ; Soziale Stellung ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 18th century ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Adel ; Soziale Stellung ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Adel ; Soziale Stellung ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Adel ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Großbritannien ; Adel ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a remarkable intellectual, political and social coherence to the century. He traces the recovery made by the aristocracy from its decade in 1649 when the House of Lords was abolished as useless and dangerous. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the peerage re-established its hold on government and society. Professor Cannon is forced to challenge some of the most cherished beliefs of English historiography - that Hanoverian society, at its top level, was an open elite, continually replenished by vigorous recruits from other groups and classes. He suggests that, on the contrary, in some respects the English peerage was more exclusive than many of its continental counterparts and that the openness was a myth which itself served a potent political purpose. Of the prospering burgeoisie, he argues that the remarkable thing was not their assertiveness but their long acquiescence in patrician rule, and he poses the paradox of a country increasingly dominated by a landed aristocracy giving birth to the first industrial revolution. His final chapter discusses the ideological under-pinning which made aristocratic supremacy acceptable for so long, and the emergence of those forces and ideals which were ultimately to replace it
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 136 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in English legal history
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1601-1740 ; Geschichte 1600 ; Geschichte ; Marriage settlements / England / History ; Recht ; Ehevertrag ; Fideikommiss ; Eheschließung ; Großbritannien ; England ; Hochschulschrift ; Großbritannien ; Eheschließung ; Recht ; Geschichte 1601-1740 ; Großbritannien ; Ehevertrag ; Geschichte 1601-1740 ; England ; Fideikommiss ; Geschichte 1600
    Abstract: The history of the family has become an area of great interest, yet the property arrangements entered into upon marriage, a crucial aspect of the process of familial wealth transmission and distribution in the landed classes in early modern England, have never been systematically studied. In the light of evidence provided by hitherto unused family muniments, Dr Bonfield analyses the legal, social and economic aspects of these settlements, and discusses the development and impact of the strict settlement
    Description / Table of Contents: The medieval inheritance and the Statute of Uses -- Law in transition: the conflict over restraints upon alienation -- Patterns of marriage settlement 1601-1659: the development of the 'life estate-entail' mode -- The emergence of the strict settlement -- The adoption of the strict settlement 1660-1740: Kent and Northamptonshire -- Marriage settlements in perspective: the social and economic aspects
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    ISBN: 9780511898150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 287 pages)
    Series Statement: Comparative ethnic and race relations
    DDC: 305.8/00941
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    Keywords: Rassenfrage ; Politische Sprache ; Rassenkonflikt ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: This book, first published in 1983, examines why people prefer to talk about immigrants or ethnic minorities when they are referring to differences marked not by the migratory process of ethnicity, but by skin colour. How, without mentioning racial criteria, have politicians managed to introduce immigration controls deliberately aimed at reducing the number of black migrants? This book identifies a central feature of British political life: the ability to justify racially discriminatory behaviour without recourse to explicit racist language. It gives an account of British racial ideology as it is practically experienced in the form of political discourse and helps to provide a theoretical understanding of its relationship to the social structure as a whole and in particular its relationship to inter- and intra-class divisions. The author argues that traditional class-based ideologies are perfectly capable of supporting racially oppressive institutions and have far better 'protective' properties than expressions of overt racism. As a result, the objective structures of British race relations are obscured by a facade of 'deracialised ideology'.
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    ISBN: 9780511896002
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 233 pages)
    Series Statement: Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1540-1790 ; Tagelöhner ; Landarbeiter ; Großbritannien ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Servants in husbandry were unmarried farm workers hired on annual contracts. The institution of service distinguished them in many ways from their chief competitors, day-labourers. Servants were employed on an annual basis; they formed part of their employers' households; they were generally young and unmarried. Service was extremely common - most rural youths in early modern England became servants to farmers, and they composed as much as half of the full-time hired labour force in agriculture. Professor Kussmaul has marshalled information from sources as diverse as marriage registers, militia lists, parish censuses, settlement examinations, account books, records of Quarter Sessions, and the autobiographies of servants and masters, in producing this book which explores this important institution and to consider its wide historiographical implications.
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    ISBN: 9780511560484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 246 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Analphabetismus ; Bildungsniveau ; Kultur ; Literatursoziologie ; England ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: In this exploration of the social context of reading and writing in pre-industrial England, David Cressy tackles important questions about the limits of participation in the mainstream of early modern society. To what extent could people at different social levels share in political, religious, literary and cultural life; how vital was the ability to read and write; and how widely distributed were these skills? Using a combination of humanist and social-scientific methods, Dr Cressy provides a detailed reconstruction of the profile of literacy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, looking forward to the eighteenth century and also making comparisons with other European societies.
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    ISBN: 9781139941846
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 161 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Slavery and abolition
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    DDC: 306.3/6209664
    Keywords: Samo, Samuel / Trials, litigation, etc ; Tufft, William / Trials, litigation, etc ; Peters, Joseph / slave trader / Trials, litigation, etc ; Recht ; Sklaverei ; Trials / Sierra Leone ; Slave trade / Great Britain ; Slavery / Law and legislation / Sierra Leone ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: In 1812 a number of slave traders were prosecuted in Sierra Leone, the focus of Britain's efforts to eradicate the trade. First published in 1813, this report is believed to have been written by the presiding judge, Robert Thorpe. The trials provoked debate as Thorpe found one trader guilty, but commuted his sentence on the condition that other traders were persuaded to cease their business. Another was dealt with severely as he displayed complicity in evading the laws. Thorpe's judgments relied upon not only the application of the anti-slavery laws, but also the notion of natural laws transcending those of nations, a notion which came under consideration in the landmark Somerset v. Stewart case of 1772, concerning an escaped slave. Published in 1876, a report on this case is also reissued here. Taken together, these two texts provide valuable source material on the history of the slave trade's abolition
    Description / Table of Contents: The trials of the slave traders -- The fugitive slave circulars
    Note: Originally published in 1813
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    ISBN: 9781139094559
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource.
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Anthropology
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    DDC: 394
    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Holidays ; Folklore / Great Britain ; Christian antiquities ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Social life and customs
    Abstract: John Brand (1744–1806), secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, first published his widely popular Observations on Popular Antiquities in 1777. This fascinating two-volume almanac of British superstitions and customs was in fact a heavily revised and annotated version of Henry Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares (1725). Volume 2 of Brand's almanac concerns the origins and practices of British customs and ceremonies including marriage customs, death rites, belief in fairies, witchcraft, omens, and divination. The volume also provides explanations for obscure but common phrases and expressions. Following the success of the book's initial reception, Brand continued to research English folklore with the intention of publishing fuller information. This two-volume version, published posthumously in 1813, was edited and expanded by Sir Henry Ellis, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and further revisions also appeared in 1841 and 1870. Brand's book is regarded as the foundation for folklore studies in England
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