Making Socialists - Mary Bridges Adams and the Fight for Knowledge and Power, 1855-1939

Informationen zum Autor Jane Martin is Professor of Social History of Education at the University of Birmingham Klappentext Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history. More than a local politician, Mary Bridges Adams was among the dynamic late nineteenth-century women activists who sought to transform government policy through socialist initiatives, with the ultimate (utopian) aim of creating a social nation. The author has assembled a thorough range of sources, including new materials that will bring fresh insights to this biography and more generally to Labour Party and socialist historiography, well-studied topics. The people Adams knew and the circles in which she travelled are particularly attractive features of this book. Foes thought her an awful woman: friends like George Bernard Shaw remembered the power of her oratory. Placed against the circumstances in which she lived and presented as part of a militant and anti-capitalist tradition within labour history, her life story contributes to new ways of seeing both socialist and feminist politics. Zusammenfassung Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgements Introduction - biography and history 1. Being Mary2. Rebel communities3. Labour politics in London4. Rethinking Socialism and education5. Education and class struggle6. The Disinherited Child and the Politics of Voice7. Bebel House and the Political Education of Working Women8. Revolutionary politics and World War One9. Reflections, connections and utopian visionsBibliographyAppendix 1 - The Daltry family treeAppendix 2 - The Adams family treeAppendix 3 - Mary Bridges Adams, time-lineAppendix 4 - Biographical notesIndex...

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• Authors: Jane Martin
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9780719076909
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7690-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies