Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867Defining the Victorian Nation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant pieces of legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. Hall, McClelland and Rendall demonstrate that the Second Reform Act was marked by controversy about the extension of the vote, new concepts of masculinity and the masculine voter, the beginnings of the women's suffrage movement, and a parallel debate about the meanings and forms of national belonging. Fascinating illustrations illuminate the argument, and a detailed chronology, biographical notes and a selected bibliography offer further support to the student reader. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
New approaches to political history | 20 |
Citizenship and the nation | 57 |
Englands greatness the working man | 71 |
From Chartism to the Reform League | 77 |
Arguments for reform | 89 |
Social change and politics | 102 |
The citizenship of women and the Reform Act of 1867 | 119 |
Defining womens citizenship | 160 |
Conclusion | 176 |
The nation within and without | 179 |
Jamaica | 192 |
Ireland | 204 |
The parliamentary debates | 221 |
Appendices | 234 |
Bibliography | 262 |
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| Title | Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867, Keith McClelland |
| Authors | Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Jane Rendall |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0521576539, 9780521576536 |
| Length | 303 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Europe / Great Britain / General History / Europe / Western History / Modern / General |
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