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Reminiscences And Reflexions Of A Mid And Late Victorian
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Book Synopsis Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and Late Victorian by : Ernest Belfort Bax
Download or read book Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and Late Victorian written by Ernest Belfort Bax and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 by : Walter E. Houghton
Download or read book The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 written by Walter E. Houghton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ôIt is now forty years,ö Walter Houghton writes, ôsince Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.öá Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic ôperiod pieces,ö critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for usùa bundle of various and often paradoxical ideas and attitudes.á Mr. Houghton explores these ideas and attitudes, studies their interrelationships, and traces their simultaneous existence to the general character of the age.á His inquiry is the more important because it demonstrates that to look into the Victorian mind is to see some of the primary sources of the modern mind.
Book Synopsis Peter Kropotkin by : Woodcock George Woodcock
Download or read book Peter Kropotkin written by Woodcock George Woodcock and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anarchism - the concept of a society without authority, of a civil order without any form of constitution or government - has fascinated people almost as long as we have possessed the power of speculative thought. In the general history of anarchism, the name of Peter Kropotkin dominates.Born in 1842 into an ancient military family of Russian princes, Kropotkin was selected as a child for the elite Corps of Pages by Tsar Nicholas I himself. Shortly before his death in 1921, he had moved so far from his aristocratic beginnings and attained such stature as a libertarian leader that he could write with impunity to Lenin, "e;Vladimir Ilyich, your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold."e;Woodcock and Avakumovic's biography, From Prince to Rebel, details the life that flowed between these two points in time. It surveys and analyses the most significant aspects of Kropotkin's life and thought: his formative years in Russia, 1842-1876, and the origins of his anarchist thinking (military service in eastern Siberia, the influence of the works of Proudhon and Bakunin, his role in the Chaikovsky Circle); his years as an migr in western Europe, 1876-1917, and the ripening of his political though (editor of Le Rvolt, his views on Marxist socialism); and his last years in the Soviet Union, 1917-1921, the revolution and civil war, and his meeting and correspondence with Lenin.Among the recent works of George Woodcock, a well-known Canadian author, are biographies of William Godwin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Black Rose Books). Ivan Avakumovic is Professor of History at the University of British Colombia and the author of History of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Youth2. The Explorer3. The Convert4. The Agitator5. "e;The White Jesus"e;6. The Traveller7. The Writer8. The Exile9. The Neglected Sage10. The ProphetBibliographySupplement for 1971 EditionSupplement to the 1990 EditionIndex1990: 490 pages, index, illustrated
Download or read book Triumph of Order written by Lisa Keller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to create a secure urban environment in which residents can work, live, and prosper with minimal disruption, New York and London established a network of laws, policing, and municipal government in the nineteenth century aimed at building the confidence of the citizenry and creating stability for economic growth. At the same time, these two cities attempted to maintain an expansive level of free speech and assembly. Yet as democracy expanded in tandem with the size of the cities themselves, the two goals clashed, resulting in tensions over their compatibility. Treating nineteenth-century London and New York as case studies, Lisa Keller examines the development of sanctioned free speech, controlled public assembly, new urban regulations, and the quelling of riots, all in the name of a proper regard for order. Drawing on rich archival sources, Keller paints an intimate portrait of daily life in these cities and the intricacies of their emerging bureaucracies. She finds that New York eventually settled on a policy of preempting disruption before it occurred, while London chose a path of greater tolerance toward street activities. Keller concludes with an assessment of freedom in New York and London today and asks whether the scales have been tipped too strongly in favor of order and control.
Book Synopsis Imperial Sceptics by : Gregory Claeys
Download or read book Imperial Sceptics written by Gregory Claeys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850–1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and the writings of John Hobson, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the contours of resistance to imperial expansion. Claeys locates the impetus for such opposition in the late 1850s with the British followers of Auguste Comte. Tracing critical strands of anti-imperial thought through to the First World War, Claeys then scrutinises the full spectrum of socialist writings from the early 1880s onwards, revealing a fundamental division over whether a new conception of 'socialist imperialism' could appeal to the electorate and satisfy economic demands. Based upon extensive archival research, and utilising rare printed sources, Imperial Sceptics will prove a major contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century political thought, shedding new light on theories of nationalism, patriotism, the state and religion.
Book Synopsis Our Library by : Library Association (Portland, Or.)
Download or read book Our Library written by Library Association (Portland, Or.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Official Index to The Times by :
Download or read book The Official Index to The Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contemporary British Philosophy by : J. H. Muirhead
Download or read book Contemporary British Philosophy written by J. H. Muirhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume VII of twenty-two of a series on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published 1925, in this is part two of three offering a collection personal statements by leading philosophical theorists-James Ward, E. Belfort Bax, G.E. Moore, Clement C.J. Webb, G. Dawes Hicks and others.
Download or read book Official Index to the Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
Book Synopsis British Literature and the Life of Institutions by : Benjamin Kohlmann
Download or read book British Literature and the Life of Institutions written by Benjamin Kohlmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in dialogue with political theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas, the book reclaims a substantive reformist language that we have ignored to our own loss. This reformist idiom made it possible to imagine the state as a speculative and aspirational idea—as a fully realized form of life rather than as an uninspiring ensemble of administrative procedures and bureaucratic processes. This volume traces the resonances of this idiom from the Victorian period to modernism, ranging from Mary Augusta Ward, George Gissing, and H. G. Wells, to Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf. Compared to this reformist language, the economism that dominates current debates about the welfare state signals an impoverishment that is at once intellectual, cultural, and political. Critiquing the shortcomings of the welfare state comes naturally to us, but we often struggle to offer up convincing defences of its principles and aims. This book intervenes in these debates by urging a richer understanding of critique: if we want to defend the state, Kohlmann argues, we need to learn to think about it again.
Book Synopsis Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England by : Angus McLaren
Download or read book Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England written by Angus McLaren and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their assumption that the progressive adoption of birth control was largely a matter of the lower classes aping the behaviour of their ‘betters’. Originally published in 1978, this book argues against this interpretation. It contends that the great interest of the nineteenth-century birth control debate is that it reveals that there was not a growing consensus of opinion on the question of family planning but rather two cultural confrontations – the struggle of the middle-class propagandists of both left and right to manipulate for political purposes working-class attitudes towards procreation, and, on a deeper level, the clash of the differing attitudes of men and women towards the possibility of fertility control. The purpose of this study is to place the idea and practice of birth control in their social and political context, and four major factors are focused upon to this end: the first is that the birth control issue played a key role in the confrontation between Malthusians, socialists, eugenists and feminists. Secondly, the whole question of contraception led to a conflict between doctors, quacks, midwives and ordinary men and women seeking to control their own fertility. Thirdly, men and women belong to different sexual cultures and necessarily respond in different ways to the possibility of family regulation, and finally, despite the claims of some that birth control was an innovation, it was the pre-industrial forms of fertility control – including abortion – which brought the birth rate down.
Book Synopsis A Hundred Years of British Philosophy by : Metz, Rudolf
Download or read book A Hundred Years of British Philosophy written by Metz, Rudolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume XIV of twenty-two in a series on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1938. The Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects—Psychology Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. Dr Rudolf Metz’s book entitled ‘Die philosophischen Stromungen der Gegenwart in Grossbritannien’ of which this volume is a translation, was the first attempt to give a detailed account to his own countrymen of the develop)llent of British philosophy during the last, and the first part of this, century.
Book Synopsis War And The Marxists by : S. F. Kissin
Download or read book War And The Marxists written by S. F. Kissin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Marxist and socialist theory and its relationship to war. A history of the attempt to find a unified socialist position relating to capitalist wars.
Book Synopsis John Wheatley, Catholic Socialism, and Irish Labour in the West of Scotland, 1906-1924 by : Gerry C. Gunnin
Download or read book John Wheatley, Catholic Socialism, and Irish Labour in the West of Scotland, 1906-1924 written by Gerry C. Gunnin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. This examination of the career of John Wheatley indicates the way in which one Irishman – reared among Liberal and Radical coal miners and taught by Roman Catholic priests and nationalist leaders to regard obedience to the Catholic Church and promotion of Home Rule as the vital interests for Irish Catholics – became a Socialist and adapted his Radical political views and devotional Roman Catholic convictions to a Parliamentary and Catholic Socialism. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of British and Labour history.
Book Synopsis Karl Marx Prince of Darkness by : George Fabian
Download or read book Karl Marx Prince of Darkness written by George Fabian and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth by : Tom Brass
Download or read book Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth written by Tom Brass and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ‘ordinary’ or well-disposed towards ‘those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural ‘otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.
Book Synopsis The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, Part B by : William Morris
Download or read book The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, Part B written by William Morris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Covering the years 1881 through 1888, they treat the most dramatic period in another facet of Morris's career: his work as a political activist. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.