Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War

Mobilizing Charity

By Peter Grant

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

This book challenges scholarship which presents charity and voluntary activity during World War I as marking a downturn from the high point of the late Victorian period. Charitable donations rose to an all-time peak, and the scope and nature of charitable work shifted decisively. Far more working...

Published March 5th 2014 by Routledge

British Student Activism in the Long Sixties

By Caroline Hoefferle

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Based on empirical evidence derived from university and national archives across the country and interviews with participants, British Student Activism in the Long Sixties reconstructs the world of university students in the 1960s and 1970s. Student accounts are placed within the context of a wide...

Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge

The Victorian Reinvention of Race

New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences

By Edward Beasley

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the...

Published July 27th 2012 by Routledge

Origins of Pan-Africanism

Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora

By Marika Sherwood

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the...

Published April 20th 2012 by Routledge

Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

Imagining Physical Impairment

By David M. Turner

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in...

Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge

Public Health in the British Empire

Intermediaries, Subordinates, and the Practice of Public Health, 1850-1960

Edited by Ryan Johnson, Amna Khalid

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain’s colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in...

Published November 18th 2011 by Routledge

Statistics and the Public Sphere

Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000

Edited by Tom Crook, Glen O'Hara

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting criticism on the grounds of their veracity and utility. However, the historical role and place of...

Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge

Revolutionary Refugees

German Socialism in Britain, 1840-1860

By Christine Lattek

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Tracing the development of German socialism in Britain and on the continent in the mid-nineteenth century, this is the first substantial study to combine two very important aspects: an analysis of this crucial stage in socialist political theory development and the examination of the social and...

Published November 17th 2005 by Routledge

Marxism in Britain

Dissent, Decline and Re-emergence 1945-c.2000

By Keith Laybourn

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Since the Second World War, Marxism in Britain has declined almost to the point of oblivion. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50,000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5,000 when it disbanded in 1991. Dissenting and Trotskyist organisations experienced a very similar...

Published November 17th 2005 by Routledge

Violence and Crime in Nineteenth Century England

The Shadow of our Refinement

By J. Carter Wood

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence through an accessible mixture of detailed empirical research and a broad survey of cutting-edge...

Published April 22nd 2004 by Routledge