English Radicals and Reformers, 1760-1848
Title | English Radicals and Reformers, 1760-1848 PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Royle |
Publisher | Brighton, Sussex : Harvester Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
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English Radicals and Reformers, 1760-1848
Title | English Radicals and Reformers, 1760-1848 PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Royle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780783775999 |
Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism
Title | Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Bradley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2002-06-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521890823 |
This book examines the social and political activities of the English Dissenters in the age of the American Revolution. By comparing sermons, political pamphlets, and election ephemera to poll books, city directories, and baptismal registers, this book offers an integrated approach to the study of ideology and behavior.
Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic
Title | Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Durey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In the transatlantic world of the late eighteenth century, easterly winds blew radical thought to America. Thomas Paine had already arrived on these shores in 1774 and made his mark as a radical pamphleteer during the Revolution. In his wake followed more than 200 other radical exiles—English Dissenters, Whigs, and Painites; Scottish "lads o'parts"; and Irish patriots—who became influential newspaper writers and editors and helped change the nature of political discourse in a young nation. Michael Durey has written the first full-scale analysis of these radicals, evaluating the long-term influence their ideas have had on American political thought. Transatlantic Radicals uncovers the roots of their radicalism in the Old World and tells the story of how these men came to be exiled, how they emigrated, and how they participated in the politics of their adopted country. Nearly all of these radicals looked to Paine as their spiritual leader and to Thomas Jefferson as their political champion. They held egalitarian, anti-federalist values and promoted an extreme form of participatory democracy that found a niche in the radical wing of Jefferson's Republican Party. Their divided views on slavery, however, reveal that democratic republicanism was unable to cope with the realities of that institution. As political activists during the 1790s, they proved crucial to Jefferson's 1800 presidential victory; then, after his views moderated and their influence waned, many repatriated, others drifted into anonymity, and a few managed to find success in the New World. Although many of these men are known to us through other histories, their influence as a group has never before been so closely examined. Durey persuasively demonstrates that the intellectual ferment in Britain did indeed have tremendous influence on American politics. His account of that influence sheds considerable light on transatlantic political history and differences in religious, political, and economic freedoms. Skillfully balancing a large cast of characters, Transatlantic Radicals depicts the diversity of their experiences and shows how crucial these reluctant émigrés were to shaping our republic in its formative years.
English Radicalism, 1550-1850
Title | English Radicalism, 1550-1850 PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Burgess |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2007-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521800174 |
A study of three centuries of radical ideas and activity in English political and social history.
Victorian Labour History
Title | Victorian Labour History PDF eBook |
Author | John Host |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2002-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134663226 |
First Published in 2004. In Victorian Labour History: Experience, Identity and the Politics of Representation, John Host addresses liberal, Marxist and postmodernist historiography on Victorian working people to question the special status of historical knowledge. The central focus of this study is a debate about mid-Victorian social stability, a condition conventionally equated with popular acceptance of the social order. Host does not join the debate but takes it as his object of analysis, deconstructing the notion of stability and the analyses that purport to explain it. In particular, he takes issue with historical evidence, noting the different possibilities for meaning that it allows and the speculative character of the narratives to which it is adduced. Host examines an extensive range of archival material to illustrate the ambiguity of the historical field, the rhetorical strategies through which the illusion of its unity is created, and the ultimately fictive quality of historical narrative. He then explores the political contingency of the works he addresses and the political consequences of representing them as true.
Victorian Radicals and Italian Democrats
Title | Victorian Radicals and Italian Democrats PDF eBook |
Author | Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0861933222 |
An examination of the links between radicalism in Victorian England, and the Risorgimento movement in Italy. This book provides powerful new insights into the history of Italy's long Risorgimento, by tracing the entanglements of the Mazzinian "international". This informal group of men and women crossed the boundary of the Channel and the boundary of class to speak a common language and share a radical ideal: Giuseppe Mazzini's vision of a unified, republican Italy. Published in the radical press, the exile's writings on democracy, education, association and citizenship inspired both Oxford social reformers and self-improving artisans gathering in provincial reading rooms, co-operative societies, republican clubs and educational institutes: for them republican Italy became a transnationaldream. Indeed, when Italy was unified under a constitutional monarch in 1861, British Mazzinians were bitterly disappointed. Setting off for Italy on their first "co-operative tour" in 1888, East London workers embarked on an educational pilgrimage, dotted with Mazzinian landmarks. Despite the fin de siècle crisis, Victorian radicals' enduring faith in Italy's democratic future remained steadfast. Indeed, when Fascists subsequently appropriated Mazzini's national dream, post-Victorian Mazzinians would unequivocally voice their support for Italian anti-Fascists, who championed the principles of global democracy. Drawing on a wide range of material, the author adds a crucialnew dimension to the history of Victorian radicalism in Britain, and to the "new history of the Risorgimento". Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe is a Research Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.