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This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the
Italian national movement, achieved by the Risorgimento, and the
Italian unification in 1860. These themes are discussed in detail
and related to the broader European theatre. Covering the literary,
cultural, religious and political history of the period, Beales and
Biagini show Italy struggled towards nation state status on all
fronts. The new edition has been thoroughly rewritten. It also
contains a number of new documents. In addition, all the most up to
date research of the last 20 years has been incorporated. The
Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy remains the major text on
nineteenth century Italy. The long introduction and useful
footnotes will be of real assistance to those interested in Italian
unification.
This completely revised second edition of the leading History of mid-nineteenth century Italy introduces the relationship between the Italian national movement, the Risorgimento and the Italian unification, largely achieved in 1859-60. This theme is discussed in detail in the introduction and illustrated by documents, many of which have not been available in English hitherto.
Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic
changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view
of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the
famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on the
history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective, it
focuses on the experiences and agency of Irish men, women and
children, Catholics and Protestants, and in the North, South and
the diaspora. An international team of leading scholars survey key
changes in population, the economy, occupations, property
ownership, class and migration, and also consider the interaction
of the individual and the state through welfare, education, crime
and policing. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary approaches
and consistently setting Irish developments in a wider European and
global context, this is an invaluable resource for courses on
modern Irish history and Irish studies.
Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic
changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view
of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the
famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on the
history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective, it
focuses on the experiences and agency of Irish men, women and
children, Catholics and Protestants, and in the North, South and
the diaspora. An international team of leading scholars survey key
changes in population, the economy, occupations, property
ownership, class and migration, and also consider the interaction
of the individual and the state through welfare, education, crime
and policing. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary approaches
and consistently setting Irish developments in a wider European and
global context, this is an invaluable resource for courses on
modern Irish history and Irish studies.
A major 2007 study of the impact of Home Rule on liberalism and
popular radicalism in Britain and Ireland. Eugenio Biagini argues
that between 1876 and 1906 the crisis of public conscience caused
by the Home Rule debate acted as the main catalyst in the remaking
of popular radicalism. This was not only because of Ireland's
intrinsic importance but also because the 'Irish cause' came to be
identified with democracy, constitutional freedoms and
humanitarianism. The related politics of emotionalism did not aid
in finding a solution to either the Home Rule or the Ulster problem
but it did create a popular culture of human rights based on the
conviction that, ultimately, politics should be guided by
non-negotiable moral imperatives. Adopting a comparative
perspective, this book explores the common ground between Irish and
British democracy and makes a significant contribution to the
history of human rights, imperialism and Victorian political
culture.
A major 2007 study of the impact of Home Rule on liberalism and
popular radicalism in Britain and Ireland. Eugenio Biagini argues
that between 1876 and 1906 the crisis of public conscience caused
by the Home Rule debate acted as the main catalyst in the remaking
of popular radicalism. This was not only because of Ireland's
intrinsic importance but also because the 'Irish cause' came to be
identified with democracy, constitutional freedoms and
humanitarianism. The related politics of emotionalism did not aid
in finding a solution to either the Home Rule or the Ulster problem
but it did create a popular culture of human rights based on the
conviction that, ultimately, politics should be guided by
non-negotiable moral imperatives. Adopting a comparative
perspective, this book explores the common ground between Irish and
British democracy and makes a significant contribution to the
history of human rights, imperialism and Victorian political
culture.
In common with republicanism or socialism in continental Europe,
Liberalism in nineteenth-century Britain was a mass movement. By
focussing on the period between the 1860s and the 1880s, this book
sets out to explain why and how that happened, and to examine the
people who supported it, their beliefs, and the way in which the
latter related to one another and to reality. Popular suport for
the Liberal party was not irrational in either its objectives or
its motivations: on the contrary, its dissemination was due to the
fact that the programme of reforms proposed by the party leaders
offered convincing solutions to some of the problems perceived as
being the most urgent at the time. This is a revealing, innovative
synthesis of the history of popular support for the Liberal party,
which emphasises the extent to which Liberalism stood in the common
heritage of European and American democracy.
Citizenship and Community explores the links among liberalism, social democracy and nationalism within the framework of traditional republican ideals of "civic virtue" and active citizenship. It examines various "currents of radicalism" in Britain and Ireland, from Victorian advanced liberals to Irish and Welsh socialists in the 1920s. The book's strong comparative emphasis focuses attention on the regions of Britain, revealing how different forms of collective identity interacted in popular attitudes to political and social debates.
Citizenship and Community explores the links among liberalism, social democracy and nationalism within the framework of traditional republican ideals of "civic virtue" and active citizenship. It examines various "currents of radicalism" in Britain and Ireland, from Victorian advanced liberals to Irish and Welsh socialists in the 1920s. The book's strong comparative emphasis focuses attention on the regions of Britain, revealing how different forms of collective identity interacted in popular attitudes to political and social debates.
'Those who were originally called radicals and afterwards
reformers, are called Chartists', declared Thomas Duncombe before
Parliament in 1842, a comment which can be adapted for a later
period and as a description of this collection of papers: 'those
who were originally called Chartists were afterwards called Liberal
and Labour activists'. In other words, the central argument of this
book is that there was a substantial continuity in popular
radicalism throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth
century. The papers stress both the popular elements in Gladstonian
Liberalism and the radical liberal elements in the early Labour
party. The first part of the book focuses on the continuity of
popular attitudes across the commonly-assumed mid-century divide,
with studies of significant personalities and movements, as well as
a local case study. The second part examines the strong links
between Gladstonian Liberalism and the working classes, looking in
particular at labour law, taxation, and the Irish crisis. The final
part assesses the impact of radical traditions on early Labour
politics, in Parliament, the unions, and local government. The same
attitudes towards liberty, the rule of law, and local democracy are
highlighted throughout, and new questions are therefore posed about
the major transitions in the popular politics of the period.
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