Popular Virtue - Continuity and Change in Radical Moral Politics, 1820-70

Informationen zum Autor Tom Scriven is Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester Klappentext A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. Zusammenfassung A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 A 'Radical Underworld'? The infidel roots of Chartist culture2 Politics and everyday life in early Chartism3 From insurrection to the 'little republic of the home'4 Medicine, popular science, and Chartism's improvement culture5 Communal self-improvement after the 'disasters of the Strike'6 The fragmented legacies of Chartist moral politicsConclusionIndex

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• Authors: Tom Scriven, Scriven Tom
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781526114754
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1475-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Political activism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Sociology: work & labour, History and Archaeology