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Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The People's Charter; with the Address to the Radical Reformers of Great Britain and Ireland, and a Brief Sketch of Its Origin
Author: The People's Charter
Author: Working Men's AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Chartism
Author: Malcolm ChasePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847791360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity. Chartism: A New History is the only book to offer in-depth coverage of the entire chronological spread (1838-58) of this pivotal movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material) this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. The author deftly intertwines analysis and narrative, interspersing his chapters with short ‘Chartist Lives’, relating the intimate and personal to the realm of the social and political. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Victorian Britain, specialists, students and general readers alike.
Chartism
Author: William LovettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chartism
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The People's Charter
Author: Stephen RobertsPublisher: Merlin Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The peopleAs charter was the most famous and important radical manifesto of 19th century Britain.
A People's Charter
Author: James MacGregor BurnsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780517179246
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The People's Charter; Being the Outline of an Act to Provide for the Just Representation of the People of Great Britain in the Common's House of Parliament; Embracing the Principles of Universal Suffrage, No Property Qualification, Annual Parliaments, Equal Representation, Payment of Members, and Vote by Ballot
Author: A People's Charter
Author: James MacGregor BurnsPublisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
On the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights, this book restores freedom in America from its textbook definitions to a dynamic process--the result of an ongoing struggle between elites, rebels, haves, and have-nots. "A bold and path-breaking book".--The New York Times.
Worlds of Dissent
Author: Jonathan BoltonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences--diverse, uncertain, nameless--have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia. Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Václav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West--including Ludvík Vaculík, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait of dissident life. Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. Worlds of Dissent offers a rare opportunity tounderstand the texture of dissent in a closed society.
The Chartist Movement
Author: Mark HovellPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719000881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Chartism was a Victorian era working class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. The term "Chartism" is the umbrella name for numerous loosely coordinated local groups, often named "Working Men's Association," articulating grievances in many cities from 1837. Its peak activity came in 1839, 1842 and 1848. It began among skilled artisans in small shops, such as shoemakers, printers, and tailors. The movement was more aggressive in areas with many distressed handloom workers, such as in Lancashire and the Midlands. It began as a petition movement which tried to mobilize "moral force", but soon attracted men who advocated strikes, General strikes and physical violence, such as Feargus O'Connor and known as "physical force" chartists."--Wikipedia
