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Moore's Irish Melodies
John Stevenson, Henry Bishop
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R1,617
Discovery Miles 16 170
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Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort
in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical
study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service
during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts the
background, education, military and civilian career, marriage,
sons' occupations, wealth at death, and broader social and cultural
interests of the members of the cohort. It reveals the role that
could be played by the nascent professions in this period in
promoting rapid social mobility. The group of medical practitioners
selected for this analysis did not come from affluent or
professional families but profited from their years in the army to
build up a solid and sometimes spectacular fortune, marry into the
professions, and place their sons in professional careers. The
study contributes to our understanding of Britishness in the
period, since the majority of the cohort came from small-town and
rural Scotland and Ireland but seldom found their wives in the
native country and frequently settled in London and other English
cities, where they often became pillars of the community.
John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but
long-unobtainable work on Popular Protest and Public Order
1700-1870 in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832)
appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater
part of it is entirely new, and brings the analysis of popular
disturbance -- and its political and economic roots -- through to
modern times. Tracing the theme through from the Chartists of the
late 1830s to the British Union of Fascists in the late 1930s, it
highlights both the changing agendas and the unchanging tensions
that underlie social disorder.
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