CART: 0 item(s) $0.00The Human Tradition in Modern Britain
Series: The Human Tradition around the World series
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"The collection's scope is impressive, and the essays are beautifully written yet quite accessible. This volume will no doubt serve to make history come alive both for students and the general public. Highly recommended."—S. L. Hoglund, Choice
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This engaging book provides a gateway to larger themes in modern British history through a set of fascinating portraits of individuals that explore important events and movements from the perspective of the people involved. Political developments are illuminated through chapters on John Locke, Charles Townshend, popular radicalism, and Margaret Thatcher. Religion and education are considered through essays on evangelicalism, the Oxford Movement, Charles Bradlaugh, and Sir James Kay Shuttleworth. Industrial and imperial questions are explored through pieces on the Great Exhibition, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and post-colonial Nigeria. National identity and wartime experience come to life in the lives of G. K. Chesterton and of Barbara Nixon, an Airraid Warden during the Blitz. Many of the chapters examine the experiences of women, including single women in early modern England, suffragettes, and Irish nationalist Mary Butler. As a rich and humanized approach to history, this book offers readers a deeper understanding of key facets of British life in the early modern and modern periods.
--Addresses themes ranging from politics and intellectual development to religion and gender
--A valuable and affordable complement to traditional textbook topics
--Offers a rich combination of perspectives by focusing on both individuals and movements
--Through specific stories, students will be able engage with broader concepts
List of Contributors
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard, Grayson Carter, Matthew J. Clarcq, John R. Davis, Anene Ejikeme, Amy M. Froide, Mark Garnett, June Hannam, Susan Hanssen, Michael Huggins, Frances Knight, Timothy Larsen, Caroline Litzenberger, Eileen Groth Lyon, D. A. J. MacPherson, David Savage, W.J. Sheils, Eric G. Tenbus, and Andrew C. Thompson.
About the Editors
Caroline Litzenberger is associate professor of history at Portland State University.
Eileen Groth Lyon is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Fredonia.