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Muckraker

Author : W. Sydney Robinson
Publisher : Robson Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Muckraker written by W. Sydney Robinson and published by Robson Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First rocketing to fame when he 'purchased' a 13-yearold girl as part of a campaign against child prostitution, W. T. Stead was the pioneer of investigative reporting. As criminal convict, Puritan, sex-fanatic, occultist, social reformer and stuntman, Stead's notoriety escalated throughout his life until his tragic death in the Titanic disaster. This book traces the rise and fall of W. T. Stead, from his childhood as the son of a strict Nonconformist minister in Newcastle, to his rapid and Machiavellian career as an influential investigative journalist, and his last years when he was ridiculed as a madman for his devotion to the occult. Stead's campaigns - all conducted with his trademark invincible zeal - are vividly described, ranging from the reform of London slums to denouncing an ex-slave trader who claimed to be the Messiah. A hundred years after his death, author Will Robinson presents new material about Stead's life taken from his personal papers, previously suppressed by his wife, giving us a fuller portrait than ever before of the sensational father of journalistic campaigning.

W.T. Stead

Author : Stewart Jay Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198832532
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book W.T. Stead written by Stewart Jay Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. T. Stead (1849-1912) was a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in the late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. W. T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet provides a compelling religious biography of Stead, offering particular attention to his conception of journalism--in an age of growing mass literacy--as a means to communicate religious truth and morality, and his view of the editor's desk as a modern pulpit. Leading scholar, Stewart J. Brown explores how his Nonconformist Conscience and sense of divine calling infused Stead's newspaper crusades-most famously his 'Maiden Tribute' campaign against child prostitution. The biography also examines Stead's growing interest in spiritualism and the occult, as he searched for the evidence of an afterlife that might draw people in a more secular age back to faith. It discusses his imperialism and his belief in the English-speaking peoples of the British Empire and American Republic as God's new chosen people for the spread of civilisation; and it highlights how his growing understanding of other faiths and cultures--but more especially his moral revulsion over the South African War of 1899-1902--brought him to question those beliefs. Finally, it assesses the influence of religious faith on his campaigns for world peace and the arbitration of international disputes.

If Christ Came to Chicago!

Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher : Chicago : Laird & Lee
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If Christ Came to Chicago! written by William Thomas Stead and published by Chicago : Laird & Lee. This book was released on 1894 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

After Death, a Personal Narrative

Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book After Death, a Personal Narrative written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From the Old World to the New

Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783743435667
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book From the Old World to the New written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Old World to the New - A Christmas Story of the Chicago Exhibition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Blue Island

Author : William T. Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989396271
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Island written by William T. Stead and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains four classic spiritualist works, three by W. T. Stead and one by his daughter, Estelle. William T. Stead (1849-1912) was a well-known British investigative journalist who became interested in Spiritualism in the 1890s. In 1892, through the gift of automatic writing, he began receiving spirit communications from the recently deceased American temperance reformer and newspaperwoman Julia T. Ames, describing conditions in the next world. He published her messages in Borderland, the spiritualist quarterly he founded in 1893, and later in book form under the title After Death, or Letters From Julia. In 1909, following Julia's suggestions from beyond, Stead established Julia's Bureau in London, where inquirers could obtain information about the spirit world from a group of resident mediums. During this time he wrote his personal account, How I Know that the Dead Return. On April 10, 1912, Stead boarded the S.S. Titanic bound from Southampton to New York, to take part in a peace congress at Carnegie Hall. On the morning of April 15 the ship struck an iceberg and Stead, along with hundreds of others, drowned. At that time his daughter, Estelle, an actress and also a spiritualist, was on tour with her own Shakespearean company. Amongst its members was a psychically gifted man named Pardoe Woodman, who foretold the disaster as they sat talking after tea. Through Woodman's clairvoyant powers W. T. Stead was able to communicate the messages contained in The Blue Island, "experiences of a new arrival beyond the veil." Estelle Stead carried on her father's work after his death. In When We Speak with the Dead she explained the possibilities and limitations of communication as viewed from her own experience, which included messages from her father "across the border."

City of Dreadful Delight

Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608101X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book City of Dreadful Delight written by Judith R. Walkowitz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction. Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain. An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press. A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.

The Americanization of the World

Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of the World written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dreamworlds of Race

Author : Duncan Bell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691235112
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Dreamworlds of Race written by Duncan Bell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States Between the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States. They dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld. Scholars, journalists, politicians, businessmen, and science fiction writers invested the “Anglo-Saxons” with extraordinary power. The most ambitious hailed them as a people destined to bring peace and justice to the earth. More modest visions still imagined them as likely to shape the twentieth century. Dreamworlds of Race explores this remarkable moment in the intellectual history of racial domination, political utopianism, and world order. Focusing on a quartet of extraordinary figures—Andrew Carnegie, W. T. Stead, Cecil J. Rhodes, and H. G. Wells—Duncan Bell shows how unionists on both sides of the Atlantic reimagined citizenship, empire, patriotism, race, war, and peace in their quest to secure global supremacy. Yet even as they dreamt of an Anglo-dominated world, the unionists disagreed over the meaning of race, the legitimacy of imperialism, the nature of political belonging, and the ultimate form and purpose of unification. The racial dreamworld was an object of competing claims and fantasies. Exploring speculative fiction as well as more conventional forms of political writing, Bell reads unionist arguments as expressions of the utopianism circulating through fin-de-siècle Anglo-American culture, and juxtaposes them with pan-Africanist critiques of racial domination and late twentieth-century fictional narratives of Anglo-American empire. Tracing how intellectual elites promoted an ambitious project of political and racial unification between Britain and the United States, Dreamworlds of Race analyzes ideas of empire and world order that reverberate to this day.

The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon

Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979111600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The persistence of organized prostitution reflected one of the less savory aspects of Victorian life. In particular, attention was increasingly paid to the large number of young girls drawn into this way of life. Legislation, in the form of the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, was introduced in Parliament in the early 1880s with the intent of protecting young women. This was to be done through the dual means of raising the age of female consent from 13 to 16 and making brothels more susceptible to legal controls. For several years the Bill languished in Parliament. At a crucial moment, support for it was energized by a sensational report, serialized in the daily Pall Mall Gazette in 1885, documenting the complexity and reach of organized prostitution as an industry and its reliance on sophisticated techniques for the entrapment of young girls. The full text of this report, by the crusading journalist W.T. Stead, is reprinted here in its entirety for the first time since its original publication. Its impact was tremendous and the report itself is thought to have provided the necessary impetus for the enactment of the most influential piece of legislation in British history relating to sexuality and its exploitation. It is a major primary source documenting Victorian attitudes toward female sexuality and its exploitation and is here generally accessible to the modern reader for the first time. Annotations to the original text identify people and places mentioned and other references made by Stead. An introductory essay places Stead's work in its historical context and identifies the various legal efforts made to combat organized prostitution from the 1820s onward. This essay also addresses one section of the Act, the so-called Labouchère Amendment, which provided the principal legal means for harassing homosexuals for the following eighty years."--From publisher description.

The Blue Island

Author : W. T. Stead
Publisher : Health Research Books
ISBN 13 : 9780787308155
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Island written by W. T. Stead and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April, 1912 the Titanic sank in mid-ocean. My father was a passenger on this ship and passed on to the next world. a fortnight after the disaster I saw my father's face, and heard his voice just as distinctly as I heard it when he bade me good-bye befo.

W. T. Stead

Author : Laurel Brake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712358668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book W. T. Stead written by Laurel Brake and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William T. Stead died on the Titanic in 1912, he was the most famous Englishman on board. A political radical and Christian, he was also a spiritualist who took dictation of the dead. This book of essays, marking the centenary of his death, seeks to recover the story of an extraordinary figure in late Victorian and Edwardian culture.

My Father

Author : Estelle Wilson Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book My Father written by Estelle Wilson Stead and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Real Ghost Stories

Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Real Ghost Stories written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Age of Decadence

Author : Simon Heffer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643136712
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Decadence written by Simon Heffer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and explosive rivalries beneath the opulent surface of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. The popular memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly, and thriving country. Britain commanded a vast empire: she bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamed of and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence can be seen in Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V’s coronation, and London’s great Edwardian palaces. Yet beneath the surface things were very different In The Age of Decadence, Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation’s massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century’s gravest constitutional crisis—and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists’ public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press, and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the nostalgia of A. E. Housman.

The Victorians

Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393049749
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book The Victorians written by A. N. Wilson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson singles out those whose lives illuminate the 19th century--Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Kipling, and others--and explains through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended. of illustrations.

The Theory of Everything Else

Author : Dan Schreiber
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063259214
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Everything Else written by Dan Schreiber and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pleasure. ... Suitable for beach reading or for mainlining before a dinner party." —Dan Piepenbring, New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Absorbing. ... As thoughtfully written as it is nuts." —Chicago Tribune A collection of the world’s most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories by the co-host of the hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, Dan Schreiber. Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Will we ever talk to animals? Are we being told the truth? Are mysterious creatures roaming the Earth? And why, when you’re in the shower, does the shower curtain always billow in towards you? We don’t know the answers to any of these questions (that includes the shower-curtain one, which is a mystery that has eluded scientists for decades, and which they are still trying to solve). But don’t worry, no matter what questions you have, you can bet on the fact that there is someone (or something) out there, investigating it on your behalf—and Dan Schreiber collects their latest findings. From the Silicon Valley tech billionaires currently trying to work out whether or not the universe is one giant video game simulation to the self-proclaimed community of Italian time-travelers who are trying to save the world from destruction; The Theory of Everything Else will act as a handbook for those who want to think differently.