Very NF in a very NF unclipped DJ with no appreciable wear.Terms: WINNING BIDDER MUST CONTACT SELLER WITHIN 24 HOURS (1 DAY) AFTER CLOSE OF AUCTION TO ACKNOWLEDGE PURCHASE. It looks, too, at the huge role played by women in the British Empire: how imperialism shaped English women's lives and how women also molded the Empire. It considers the influence of religion, education, and politics, especially the advent of organized feminism and the suffragette movement. It charts the poverty and struggles of the working class as well as the leadership roles of middle-class and elite women. Using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, it looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage, and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all classes of women.
This book brings together an astonishing range of research into women's lives in England between 17. Large 8vo, full faux cloth in DJ x, 342pp includes notes, further reading, and index. With a clear introduction outlining the key themes of the period, a detailed timeline, and suggestions for further reading and relevant internet resources, this is the ideal companion for all students of the nineteenth century.Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History by Susie Steinbach.
There are also three chapters on space, consumption, and the law, topics rarely covered at this introductory level. Steinbach uses thematic chapters to discuss and evaluate topics such as politics, imperialism, the economy, class, gender, the monarchy, arts and entertainment, religion, sexuality, religion, and science. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming up to the start of World War I in 1914, Susie L. This second edition is fully updated throughout, containing a new chapter on leisure in the Victorian period, the most recent historiographical research in Victorian Studies, and enhanced coverage of imperialism and working-class life. Encompassing all of Great Britain and Ireland over the whole of the Victorian period, it gives prominence to social and cultural topics alongside politics and economics and emphasises class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations.
Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of this era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the critical debates taking place among historians today.
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