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Informationen zum Autor David Feldman teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism. He has written on Jewish history as well as on the history of migration, immigration and emigration in early modern and modern Britain. He is the author of Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture, 1840–1914 (1994) and most recently (together with Leo Lucassen and Jochen Oltmer) he edited Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe, 1880–2004 (2006). He is currently writing a book on immigration and public policy in Britain since 1600. Jon Lawrence lectures in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has written widely on the social, political and cultural history of modern Britain, and is the author of Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867–1914 (1998), Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair (2009), and with Miles Taylor, Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820 (1997). He is currently writing a book on class and the politics of social identity in modern Britain. Klappentext A major new collection of essays on modern British history by leading scholars in the field. Zusammenfassung Inspired by the work of Gareth Stedman Jones! Structures and Transformations in Modern British History contains major essays on modern British history by leading scholars in the field. Ranging across core issues in social! cultural! imperial and political history! the collection will prove indispensable for anyone interested in what is new in modern history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Alan 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, 1900-40 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: a history of multiculturalism in one country David Feldman....
