Defining the Victorian nation
Subtitle: class, race, gender and the British Reform Act of 1867
By: Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall.
Contributors: McClelland, Keith.; Rendall, Jane, 1945-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Great Britain; Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Women in politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Election law -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Social classes -- England -- History -- 19th century; Race awareness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Other titles: Class, race, gender and the British Reform Act of 1867
Description: Defining the Nation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant pieces of legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors examine gender, class, and race in the context of this crucial period. Illustrations, detailed chronology, biographical notes and selected bibliography offer further support to the student reader.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1; title: CATHERINE HALL, KEITH McCLELLAND AND JANE RENDALL; title: Historians and the Reform Act of 1867 1; title: New approaches to political history 20; title: Citizenship and the nation 57; title: 2 'England's greatness, the working man' 71; title: KEITH McCLELLAND; title: From Chartism to the Reform League 77; title: Arguments for reform 89; title: Social change and politics 102; title: 3 The citizenship of women and the Reform Act of 1867 119; title: JANE RENDALL; title: The background to ihe women's suffrage movment, 1790-1865 121; title: Women and the Reform Act of 1867 130; title: Defining women's citizenship. 160; title: Conclusion' 176; title: 4 The nation within and without 179; title: CATHERINE HALL; title: Jamaica 192; title: Ireland 204; title: The parliamentary debates 221.