The Human Tradition in Modern Britain

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. As a rich and humanized supplement to traditional survey texts, this book offers readers a deeper understanding of key facets of British life in the early modern and modern periods.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

1 John Locke: Politics, Philosophy, and Public Service

1

(16)

W.J. Sheils

2 Sisters, Shopkeepers, and Dissenters: Singlewomen in Britain at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century

17

(14)

Amy M. Froide

3 Charles Townshend and Eighteenth-century British Politics

31

(16)

Andrew C. Thompson

4 Evangelical Religion

47

(16)

Grayson Carter

5 Captain Rock, Captain Swing: "Primitive" Rebels and Radical Politics in England and Ireland, 1790-1845

63

(18)

Michael Huggins

6 The Oxford Movement in Wales: A Catholic Revival in a Protestant Land

81

(14)

Frances Knight

7 Albert and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Creating the Ceremonial of Industry

95

(16)

John R. Davis

8 The Indian Rebellion of 1857: A Crisis in British Imperial Consciousness

111

(16)

David Savage

9 Charles Bradlaugh, Militant Unbelief, and the Civil Rights of Atheists

127

(12)

Timothy Larsen

10 In Fits and Starts: The Education Struggle in Nineteenth-century Britain

139

(16)

Eric G. Tenbus

11 A Woman's Right to Be Herself: The Political Journeys of Three British Suffrage Campaigners

155

(16)

June Hannam and Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

12 Mary Butler, Domesticity, Housewifery, and Identity in Ireland, 1899-1912

171

(16)

D.A.J. MacPherson

13 G.K. Chesterton and British National Identity in World War I

187

(14)

Susan Hanssen

14 Barbara Nixon: A Warden's Blitz

201

(20)

Matthew J. Clarcq

15 Mothers First: Onitsha Women Battle the Government in Colonial and Postcolonial Nigeria, 1956-1964

221

(14)

Anene Ejikeme

16 Margaret Thatcher: The Woman and Her Times

235

(14)

Mark Garnett

Index

249

(6)

About the Contributors

255

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