William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution

William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution
Author: M. Keay
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2001-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1403919569

Wordsworth's romantic critique of industrial life and society was backward-looking. His 'Golden Age ideal' of pastoral life and rural relationships falls within the scope of English 'populism' as found among the middle ranks of small independent producers and their idealogues. Furthermore his rural education and up-bringing in the remote North of England explain his long-term shift from radical and whig reformer to tory placeman in the years 1789 to 1832 as well as his relative demise as a poet.

Fascists and Honourable Men

Fascists and Honourable Men
Author: N. Amzalak
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230316891

Was France fascist in the interwar period? This comprehensive historical, political and sociological account follows the rise of engineers and political "non-conformists" in the first half of the twentieth century, examining the French technocracy's relationship with the rise of fascism in France and later the establishment of the Fourth Republic.

The Jacobites at Urbino

The Jacobites at Urbino
Author: E. Corp
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230305369

Following the Glorious Revolution the court of the exiled Stuarts was for many years based in France, until after the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715, it was forced to move, eventually to be established in Rome. This book provides the first study of the court in transition, when exiled King James III lived in the Palazzo Ducale at Urbino.

The Organization of Opinion

The Organization of Opinion
Author: J. Mitchell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230594999

A new account of voting between the First and Second Reform Bills, outlining a new interpretation of electoral behaviour, and emphasizing the links between individual electors and their social context. It also explores the consequences of these ideas for local political organization, suffragism, and the development of the party system.

The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson

The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson
Author: J. Clark
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137264721

A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'

The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890

The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890
Author: M. Baer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2012-07-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137035293

The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and tranquil in an age of democracy.

Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain

Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain
Author: F. Parsons
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230244661

This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).

Church, Chapel and Party

Church, Chapel and Party
Author: Richard D. Floyd
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2008-01-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230590586

Through close examination of dozens of electoral contests in carefully chosen constituencies, the author demonstrates that the fundamental division separating the burgeoning liberal and conservative parties in England in the 1830s and 1840s was religion, and that this controversy was what created a perceptible two-party system in British politics.

Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000

Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000
Author: K. Schutte
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137327804

Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.