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First published to wide critical acclaim in 1987, Family Fortunes
has become a seminal text in class and gender history, and its
influence in the field continues to be extensive today. The book
explores the middle-class family and its place in the development
of capitalist society. It argues that gender and class need to be
thought about together - that class was always gendered and gender
always classed. Divided into three parts, the book covers religion
and ideology, economic structure and opportunity, and gender in
action across two main case studies: the rural counties of Suffolk
and Essex and the industrial town of Birmingham. This third edition
contains a new introductory section by Catherine Hall, reflecting
on some of the major developments in historical thinking over the
last fifteen years and discussing the evolution of key themes such
as the family. Providing critical insight into the perception of
middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850,
this volume is essential reading for students of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century British social history.
This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview
in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldan (1652-1706), a
prolific and celebrated sculptor of the Spanish Golden Age. The
daughter of Pedro Roldan, a well-known sculptor from Seville, she
developed her talent in her father's workshop. Early in her career
she produced large polychromed wooden sculptures for churches in
Seville, Cadiz, and surrounding towns. She spent the second half of
her career in Madrid, where she worked in both polychromed wood and
polychromed terracotta, developing new products for a domestic,
devotional market. In recognition of her talent, she was awarded
the title of Sculptor to the Royal Chambers of two kings of Spain,
Charles II and Philip V. This book places Roldan within a wider
historical and social context, exploring what life would have been
like for her as a woman sculptor in early modern Spain. It
considers her work alongside that of other artists of the Baroque
period, including Velazquez, Murillo, and Zurbaran. Reflecting on
the opportunities available to her during this time, as well as the
challenges she faced, Catherine Hall-van den Elsen weaves the
narrative of Roldan's story with analysis, revealing the
complexities of her oeuvre. Every year, newly discovered sculptures
in wood and in terracotta enter into Roldan's oeuvre. As her
artistic output begins to attract greater attention from scholars
and art lovers, Luisa Roldan provides invaluable insights into her
artistic achievements.
By the time the summer holidays begin, Spencer Little is keen to
put the events of the past term at Cambridge behind him and a
remote village in the Lake District seems to offer the perfect
escape. But it's not so easy to remain anonymous in a small
community and, after striking up a friendship with ten year old
Alice, Spencer also finds himself being drawn into other people's
lives. As the summer heatwave intensifies and a web of complicity
tightens around him, Spencer realizes that he will eventually be
forced to choose between loyalty and truth, between logic and
passion.
First published to wide critical acclaim in 1987, Family Fortunes
has become a seminal text in class and gender history, and its
influence in the field continues to be extensive today. The book
explores the middle-class family and its place in the development
of capitalist society. It argues that gender and class need to be
thought about together - that class was always gendered and gender
always classed. Divided into three parts, the book covers religion
and ideology, economic structure and opportunity, and gender in
action across two main case studies: the rural counties of Suffolk
and Essex and the industrial town of Birmingham. This third edition
contains a new introductory section by Catherine Hall, reflecting
on some of the major developments in historical thinking over the
last fifteen years and discussing the evolution of key themes such
as the family. Providing critical insight into the perception of
middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850,
this volume is essential reading for students of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century British social history.
Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary
critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the
British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A
substantial introduction by the distinguished historian, Professor
Catherine Hall, discusses new approaches to the history of empire
and establishes a narrative frame through which to read the essays
which follow.. The volume is clearly divided into three sections:
theoretical, emphasising concepts and approaches; the colonisers
'at home', focusing on how empire was lived in Britain; and 'away'
- the attempt to construct new cultures through which the
colonisers defined themselves and others in varied colonial sites.
A useful guide to recent scholarship on the culture of imperialism.
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My memories of Grace never added up to how she really was. She was
always impossible to pin down, dancing just out of my reach,
exactly as she did when she was alive. Nora was a girl of twelve
when the war broke out and she was forced to join the train-loads
of evacuees leaving London's East End for rural Kent. Her surrogate
family, the Rivers, are unlike anyone she has met before and she
soon comes to love her new life with them, and in particular with
twelve-year-old Grace. Over the next few years, as the dogfights
rage ever more fiercely over head and it becomes clear that the
Rivers marriage contains deep and irreparable cracks, Nora and
Grace grow as close as sisters - though, to Nora's confusion, even
this is not quite as close as she would like ...What happened next
is a secret that will gnaw away at Nora for the rest of her life -
a secret that she can only begin to tell when she is certain that
she is approaching the end.
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Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774,
Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to
define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long
deployed natural history and social theory, carefully mapping the
island, and drawing on poetry and engravings, in his efforts to
establish a clear and fixed racialized hierarchy. His White family
sat at the heart of Jamaican planter society and the West India
trade in sugar, which provided the economic bedrock of this
eighteenth-century system of racial capitalism. Catherine Hall
tells the story behind the History of a slave-owning family that
prospered across generations together with the destruction of such
possibilities for enslaved people. She unpicks the many
contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and
stereotypes that have poisoned social relations over generations
and allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial
capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.
In recent years, nations, nationalism, and the nation-state have
enjoyed a resurgence of scholarly interest. The focus on the
twentieth century and in particular the post-colonial and
post-socialist era, however, has neglected the crucial
developmental phase of modern nationalism, when basic patterns were
created that were to exert long-term influence on the political
culture of nations in and outside Europe. This book examines how
gender and nation legitimize and limit the access of individuals
and groups to national movements and the resources of nation-state.
From problems of inclusion, exclusion and difference, national wars
and military systems to national symbols, rituals and myths,
contributors present a diverse array of critical perspectives,
methodological approaches, and case-studies that are intellectually
provocative and will help to guide future research as well as
orient it toward international comparison.This book raises new
questions about nation and gender and provides an assessment of the
state of research in different countries for all those interested
in cultural and social history, politics, anthropology and gender
studies.
In recent years, nations, nationalism, and the nation-state have
enjoyed a resurgence of scholarly interest. The focus on the
twentieth century and in particular the post-colonial and
post-socialist era, however, has neglected the crucial
developmental phase of modern nationalism, when basic patterns were
created that were to exert long-term influence on the political
culture of nations in and outside Europe. This book examines how
gender and nation legitimize and limit the access of individuals
and groups to national movements and the resources of nation-state.
From problems of inclusion, exclusion and difference, national wars
and military systems to national symbols, rituals and myths,
contributors present a diverse array of critical perspectives,
methodological approaches, and case-studies that are intellectually
provocative and will help to guide future research as well as
orient it toward international comparison.
This book raises new questions about nation and gender and provides
an assessment of the state of research in different countries for
all those interested in cultural and social history, politics,
anthropology and gender studies.
How did the English get to be English? In "Civilising Subjects,"
Catherine Hall argues that the idea of empire was at the heart of
mid-nineteenth-century British self-imagining, with peoples such as
the "Aborigines" in Australia and the "negroes" in Jamaica serving
as markers of difference separating "civilised" English from
"savage" others.
Hall uses the stories of two groups of Englishmen and -women to
explore British self-constructions both in the colonies and at
home. In Jamaica, a group of Baptist missionaries hoped to make
African-Jamaicans into people like themselves, only to be
disappointed when the project proved neither simple nor congenial
to the black men and women for whom they hoped to fashion new
selves. And in Birmingham, abolitionist enthusiasm dominated the
city in the 1830s, but by the 1860s, a harsher racial vocabulary
reflected a new perception of the nonwhite subjects of empire as
different kinds of men from the "manly citizens" of Birmingham.
This absorbing and detailed study of the "racing" of Englishness
will be invaluable for students and scholars of imperial and
cultural history.
This book presents a collection of papers from RMIT's annual
learning and teaching conference, Transformations in Tertiary
Education: The Scholarship of Engagement at RMIT. It discusses
innovative curricula and assessments, examines transformative
student experiences and showcases examples of curricular and
extra-curricular activities to promote and develop intercultural
awareness and competence. The book showcases high-quality,
innovative papers on promising new directions in tertiary
education, representing the breadth and depth of teaching and
learning at a leading global Australian university. Authors from
Australian and offshore campuses address compelling questions
related to curricula, technology, and assessment. Further, they
employ a variety of methodological approaches to illustrate 21st
century global perspectives on learning and teaching. Readers will
be introduced to the complex interrelationships between scholarship
and practice, innovative learning design and learning outcomes, and
the shifting scholarship roles of the university, the teacher and
the learner.
This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial
slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing
on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees
who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery,
and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores
the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical
and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends
conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated
account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian
Britain, and to re-assess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It
will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and
social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of
the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with
the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the
relationship between past and present.
This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's
empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel,
by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of
citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century
to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience
and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at
home, ' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood,
masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature,
sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They
assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political
affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was
there, part of the given world that had made them who they were.
They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention
at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential
reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire
Defining 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.
This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial
slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing
on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees
who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery,
and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores
the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical
and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends
conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated
account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian
Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It
will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and
social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of
the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with
the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the
relationship between past and present.
The essays in this collection show how histories written in the
past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or
avoided and disavowed Britain's imperial role and issues of
difference. Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present,
these essays consider both individual historians, including such
key figures as E. A. Freeman, G. M. Trevelyan and Keith Hancock,
and also broader themes such as the relationship between
liberalism, race and historiography and how we might re-think
British history in the light of trans-national, trans-imperial and
cross-cultural analysis. 'Britishness' and what 'British' history
is have become major cultural and political issues in our time. But
as these essays demonstrate, there is no single national story:
race, empire and difference have pulsed through the writing of
British history. The contributors include some of the most
distinguished historians writing today: C. A. Bayly, Antoinette
Burton, Saul Dubow, Geoff Eley, Theodore Koditschek, Marilyn Lake,
John M. MacKenzie, Karen O'Brien, Sonya O. Rose, Bill Schwarz,
Kathleen Wilson. -- .
This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's
empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel,
by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of
citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century
to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience
and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at
home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood,
masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature,
sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They
assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political
affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was
there, part of the given world that had made them who they were.
They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention
at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential
reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.
Defining 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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