In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines--history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies--investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how Britain's liberal version of modernity (of capitalism, democracy, and imperialism) was the product of a peculiar set of historical circumstances that continues to haunt our neoliberal present.

Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley Series in British Studies) (Volume 1)

History

Vernon, James

Joyce, Patrick

Gunn, Simon

Americas

University of California Press

<p>This is a study of how the labouring poor of nineteenth-century industrial England saw the social order of which they were a part. It attacks orthodoxies and sets up new questions by attending to a wide range of contemporary experience, from politics and work to language and art.</p>

Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, c.1848–1914

Europe

Cambridge University Press

This pioneering and highly original study explores critically the nature of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two men (Edwin Waugh and John Bright) who are taken as representative of what "working class" and "middle class" meant in England in the nineteenth century. The book points the way forward to a new history of democracy as an imagined entity. It represents a deepening of the author's engagement with "post-modernist" theory, in the process offering a critique of the conservatism and complacency of much academic history, particularly in Britain.

Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England

<p>This pioneering and highly original study explores critically the nature of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two men (Edwin Waugh and John Bright) who are taken as representative of what "working class" and "middle class" meant in England in the nineteenth century. The book points the way forward to a new history of democracy as an imagined entity. It represents a deepening of the author's engagement with "post-modernist" theory, in the process offering a critique of the conservatism and complacency of much academic history, particularly in Britain.</p>

Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Comparative)

With a new Preface by the author.  The acclaimed major interpretation of 19th century society and politics concerning the human impact of the industrial revolution.  Offers a subtle and responsive understanding of the formation of class consciousness, and a recognition that deference and stability as well as independence in class relations grew out of working-class culture and community , and thus out of the centre of people's lives.

Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England (Modern Revivals in History)

Business & Money

Economics

Gregg Revivals

Work Society & Politics

Rutgers University Press

This classic study remains the outstanding work on 19th century party history and politics. It contains the discursive new introduction which the author wrote for the second edition.

Work, Society, and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England

Human Resources

Rutgers Univ Pr

Work, society, and politics: The culture of the factory in later Victorian England

Harvester Press

The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800

What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.

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Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley Series in British Studies) (Volume 1)

Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, c.1848–1914

Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England

Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, c.1848–1914

Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Comparative)

Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England (Modern Revivals in History)

Work Society & Politics

Work, Society, and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England

Work, society, and politics: The culture of the factory in later Victorian England

The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800