The Human Tradition in Modern Britain

Edited by Caroline Litzenberger and Eileen Groth Lyon - Contributions by Myriam Boussahba-Bravard; Grayson Carter; Matthew J. Clarcq; John R. Davis; Anene Ejikeme; Amy M. Froide; Mark Garnett; June Hannam; Susan Hanssen; Michael Huggins; Frances Knight; T

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.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 John Locke: Politics, Philosophy, and Public Service Chapter 3 Sisters, Shopkeepers, and Dissenters: Singlewomen in Britain at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century Chapter 4 Charles Townshend and Eighteenth-century British Politics Chapter 5 Evangelical Religion Chapter 6 Captain Rock, Captain Swing: "Primitive" Rebels and Radical Politics in England and Ireland, 1790-1845 Chapter 7 The Oxford Movement in Wales: A Catholic Revival in a Protestant Land Chapter 8 Albert and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Creating the Ceremonial of Industry Chapter 9 The Indian Rebellion of 1857: A Crisis in British Imperial Consciousness Chapter 10 Charles Bradlaugh, Militant Unbelief, and the Civil Rights of Atheists Chapter 11 In Fits and Starts: The Education Struggle in Nineteenth-century Britain Chapter 12 A Woman's Right to Be Herself: The Political Journeys of Three British Suffrage Campaigners Chapter 13 Mary Butler, Domesticity, Housewifery, and Identity in Ireland, 1899-1912 Chapter 14 G. K. Chesterton and British National Identity in World War I Chapter 15 Barbara Nixon: A Warden's Blitz Chapter 16 Mothers First: Onitsha Women Battle the Government in Colonial and Postcolonial Nigeria, 1956-1964 Chapter 17 Margaret Thatcher: The Woman and Her Times