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Few historians have written about walking, despite its obvious
centrality to the human condition. Focusing on the period
1800-1914, this book examines the practices and meanings of walking
in the context of transformative modernity. It boldly suggests that
once historians place walking at the heart of their analyses,
exciting new perspectives on themes central to the 'long nineteenth
century' emerge. Walking Histories, 1800-1914 adopts a global
perspective, including contributions from specialists in the
history and culture of Great Britain, North America, Australia,
Russia, East-Central Europe, and South Asia. Critically engaging
with recent research, the contributions within offer fresh insights
for academic experts, while remaining accessible to student
readers. This book will be essential reading for those interested
in movement, travel, leisure, urban history, and environmental
history.
New examination of how land politics were closely entwined with the
idea of Englishness. The land question loomed large in late
Victorian and Edwardian politics, playing a major part in
Conservative, Liberal and Labour policymaking: in the context of
concern about the faltering agricultural economy and the effects
oflarge-scale rural-urban migration, land reforms were hotly
debated in and out of parliament as never before. This book offers
the first full-length study of the relationship between Englishness
and the politics of land. It explores the ideas and cultural
attitudes that informed political positions on the land question,
from paternalist "pure squire Conservatism" to patriotic radical
visions of pre-enclosure England: the author underlines how the
land question excited political passion and controversy because it
involved contested issues of national identity, national character
and race. By examining how land politics functioned as a site for
patriotic debate, the book offers fresh insights into the
ideological significance of contemporary nationalistic discourse,
which in the British context has more usually been associated with
war and empire than apparently "domestic" issues. In doing so, it
argues for the importance of rural - but not necessarily
reactionary - constructions of Englishness in late nineteenth and
early twentieth-century England. Dr PAUL READMAN is Lecturer in
Modern History at King's College London.
People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds
them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters
so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance
in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of
modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to
the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of industrial
Manchester to the heart of London. This panoramic journey reveals
the significance, not only of the physical characteristics of
landscapes, but also of the sense of the past, collective memories
and cultural traditions that give these places their meaning.
Between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries,
Englishness extended far beyond the pastoral idyll of chocolate-box
thatched cottages, waving fields of corn and quaint country
churches. It was found in diverse locations - urban as well as
rural, north as well as south - and it took strikingly diverse
forms.
Explores the many issues surrounding by-elections in the period
which saw the extension of the franchise, the introduction of the
ballot, and the demise of most dual member constituencies. Between
the 1832 Great Reform Act and the outbreak of World War One in
1914, over 2,600 by-elections took place in Britain. They were
triggered by the death, retirement or resignation of sitting MPs or
by the appointment of cabinet ministers and were a regular feature
of Victorian and Edwardian politics. They furnished political
parties and their leaders with a crucial tool for gauging and
mobilising public opinion. Yet despite the prominence of
by-election contests in the historical records of this period,
scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. As this
book shows, these elections deserve to be taken as seriously today
as people took them at the time. They providedimportant linkages
between local and national politics, between the four parts of the
United Kingdom and Westminster, and between foreign and domestic
affairs. They are vital to understanding the evolving
electioneering machineries, the varying language of electoral
contests, the traction that particular issues had with a growing
and frequently volatile electorate, and the fluctuating fortunes of
the political parties. This book, consisting of original work by
leading political historians, provides the first synoptic study of
this important subject. It will be required reading for historians
and students of modern British political history, as well as
specialists in electoralhistory and politics. T. G. Otte is
Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia.
He is the author and/or editor of some thirteen books. Among the
most recent is The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British
Foreign Policy, 1865-1914; Paul Readman is Senior Lecturer in
Modern British History at King's College London. He is the author
of Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity and
the Politics of Land 1880-1914. Contributors: Luke Blaxill, Angus
Hawkins, Geoffrey Hicks, Phillips Payson O'Brien, T.G. Otte, Ian
Packer, Gordon Pentland, Paul Readman, Kathryn Rix, Matthew
Roberts, Philip Salmon, Anthony Taylor
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