Structures and transformations in modern British history / edited by David Feldman and Jon Lawrence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldman, David, 1957- editor.

Lawrence, Jon, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Politics and government--19th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.

Great Britain--Politics and government--21st century.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.

Great Britain--Social conditions--21st century.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 331 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Structures & Transformations in Modern British History

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This major collection of essays challenges many of our preconceptions about British political and social history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Inspired by the work of Gareth Stedman Jones, twelve leading scholars explore both the long-term structures - social, political and intellectual - of modern British history, and the forces that have transformed those structures at key moments. The result is a series of insightful, original essays presenting new research within a broad historical context. Subjects covered include the consequences of rapid demographic change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the forces shaping transnational networks, especially those between Britain and its empire; and the recurrent problem of how we connect cultural politics to social change. An introductory essay situates Stedman Jones's work within the broader historiographical trends of the past thirty years, drawing important conclusions about new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Introduction: structures and transformations in British historiography / David Feldman and Jon Lawrence

1. Coping with rapid population growth: how England fared in the century preceding the Great Exhibition of 1851 / E.A. Wrigley

2. The 'urban renaissance' and the mob: rethinking civic improvement over the long eighteenth century / Emma Griffin

3. Forms of 'government growth', 1780-1830 / Joanna Innes

4. Family formations: Anglo India and the familial proto-state / Margot Finn

5. The commons, enclosure and radical histories / Alun Howkins

6. Engels and the city: the philosophy and practice of urban hypocrisy / Tristram Hunt

7. The decline of institutional reform in nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan Parry

8. British women and cultures of internationalism, c.1815-1914 / Anne Summers

9. Psychoanalysis, history and national culture / Daniel Pick

10. Labour and the politics of class, 1900-1940 / Jon Lawrence

11. The dialectics of liberation: the old left, the new left and the counter-culture / Alastair J. Reid

12. Why the English like turbans: multicultural politics in British history / David Feldman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-86169-9

1-107-21613-3

1-283-00606-5

9786613006066

0-511-86006-4

0-511-85919-8

0-511-86093-5

0-511-85832-9

0-511-85745-4

0-511-97390-X

OCLC:

703137545