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Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space
addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and
contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis
when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle
complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical
progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing,
forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be
without excluding current realities for Black boys and men, civic
manhood, maleness, and the fluidity of masculinities. These
realities are acknowledged and interrogated across private and
public contexts, media, education, occupation, and theoretical
perspectives. This book encourages readers to reenvision social
identity as an ongoing phenomenon, asserting that collective vision
informs action and collective action informs possibilities for
peace and freedom in the world around us. Scholars of
communication, gender studies, and race studies will find this book
particularly interesting.
Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930) was the only one of the sons of the
renowned nineteenth-century Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
to enjoy a significant political career in his own right. Yet he
has been generally relegated to the wings of history's stage,
destined, it seems, to remain permanently in the shadow of his
illustrious parent. Such an outcome would not have troubled him
unduly, for his whole life was shaped by deep affection and respect
for his father while as a political actor he was happiest operating
in the political shadows rather than in the limelight - serving for
30 years as a Liberal MP for Leeds with short periods as Home
Secretary (1905-1910) and, as Viscount Gladstone, Governor-General
of South Africa (1910-1914). In exploring the intimate connection
between Herbert Gladstone's public and private lives this new
biography, the first for eighty years, reveals an unambitious,
self-effacing man of faith and throws new light not only on his own
career but also on significant episodes in British Victorian and
early-twentieth century history.
A fresh look at Labour's lost leader', exploiting the the opening
of government records and the private papers of his most important
contemporaries.
Protestant nonconformity was one of the most significant influences
in nineteenth-century Britain, and has rightly received
considerable attention from historians. At both local and national
level much of its influence was channelled through, and inspired
by, the activities and utterances of the professional minister. The
names of the most successful were often household words in the
Victorian period, and most have attracted a biographer. Yet neither
the experiences nor the careers of these pulpit princes were
necessarily those of the typical minister - almost nine thousand of
them in 1900 - who served in the chapels of the main dissenting
denominations. Using simple sampling and statistical techniques,
Kenneth D. Brown sets out to recreate the lives, both private and
professional, of this less celebrated but faithful and more
representative body of men, rescuing them from the anonymity of the
past.
The toy industry and its close relationship with children's
artefacts and equipment made a significant contribution to the
light industries which came to increasing prominence in the British
economy over the twentieth century as traditional heavy
manufacturing declined. The demand for toys, both national and
international, accelerated after the Great Exhibition of 1851 and
two brothers, George and Joseph Lines, were among the most
prominent of the manufacturers to emerge in the Victorian period.
However, it was Lines Brothers Ltd., formally incorporated in 1919
by Joseph's three sons, which very quickly established itself as
the leading British toy company, overcoming the vicissitudes of
depression and world war to become the world's largest toy
manufacturer by the 1950s. With operations in many parts of the
world it was arguably the world's first multi-national toy company,
enjoying something of a golden age before collapsing spectacularly
in the face of intensifying international competition and a
changing economic climate. This is the fascinating story of a
family business whose iconic Tri-ang trademark was universally
recognised and whose most famous products included model railways,
Spot-on and Minic cars, soft toys, Pedigree prams, dolls' houses,
Scalextric, and Cindy dolls. It is a serious economic, business and
industrial history, touching on important themes such as the
interplay between government and business, the nature of
entrepreneurship, the significance of company culture and
organisation, and the changing nature of childhood. Above all, it
is a story of strong personalities, familial tensions, and an
underlying determination to bring delight to children.
This is the third book of the Magdalene Scrolls Trilogy. Hy Brasil
is a mystical island 200 miles west of Ireland and the present day
characters find themselves gifted by an unknown package delivered
to Ellen Douglas. Thus moving from the present day to a time of 400
A.D. this unusual gift brings for time travel with the reader'
attention mesmerized with this delightful novel.
Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930) was the only one of the sons of the
renowned nineteenth-century Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
to enjoy a significant political career in his own right. Yet he
has been generally relegated to the wings of history's stage,
destined, it seems, to remain permanently in the shadow of his
illustrious parent. Such an outcome would not have troubled him
unduly, for his whole life was shaped by deep affection and respect
for his father while as a political actor he was happiest operating
in the political shadows rather than in the limelight - serving for
30 years as a Liberal MP for Leeds with short periods as Home
Secretary (1905-1910) and, as Viscount Gladstone, Governor-General
of South Africa (1910-1914). In exploring the intimate connection
between Herbert Gladstone's public and private lives this new
biography, the first for eighty years, reveals an unambitious,
self-effacing man of faith and throws new light not only on his own
career but also on significant episodes in British Victorian and
early-twentieth century history.
Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space
addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and
contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis
when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle
complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical
progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing,
forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be
without excluding current realities for Black boys and men, civic
manhood, maleness, and the fluidity of masculinities. These
realities are acknowledged and interrogated across private and
public contexts, media, education, occupation, and theoretical
perspectives. This book encourages readers to reenvision social
identity as an ongoing phenomenon, asserting that collective vision
informs action and collective action informs possibilities for
peace and freedom in the world around us. Scholars of
communication, gender studies, and race studies will find this book
particularly interesting.
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