The Chartist Challenge
Author | : Albert Robert Schoyen |
Publisher | : London : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Chartism |
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Author | : Albert Robert Schoyen |
Publisher | : London : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Chartism |
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Author | : Albert R. Schoyen |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1980-05 |
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ISBN | : 9780678080207 |
Author | : A. r Schoyen |
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Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Mark Hovell |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719000881 |
"Chartism was a Victorian era working class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. The term "Chartism" is the umbrella name for numerous loosely coordinated local groups, often named "Working Men's Association," articulating grievances in many cities from 1837. Its peak activity came in 1839, 1842 and 1848. It began among skilled artisans in small shops, such as shoemakers, printers, and tailors. The movement was more aggressive in areas with many distressed handloom workers, such as in Lancashire and the Midlands. It began as a petition movement which tried to mobilize "moral force", but soon attracted men who advocated strikes, General strikes and physical violence, such as Feargus O'Connor and known as "physical force" chartists."--Wikipedia
Author | : A. R. Schoyen |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1848 |
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Author | : Rob Sewell |
Publisher | : Wellred Books |
Total Pages | : 396 |
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Genre | : History |
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Chartism was the first time ever that British workers fixed their eyes on the seizure of political power: in 1839, 1842 and again in 1848. In this struggle, they conducted a class war that at different times involved general strikes, battles with the state, mass demonstrations and even armed insurrection. They forged weapons, illegally drilled their forces, and armed themselves in preparation for seizing the reins of government. Such were the early revolutionary traditions of the British working class, deliberately buried beneath a mountain of falsehoods and distortions. This book sees Chartism as an essential part of our history from which we must draw the key lessons for today.
Author | : Malcolm Chase |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847791360 |
Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity. Chartism: A New History is the only book to offer in-depth coverage of the entire chronological spread (1838-58) of this pivotal movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material) this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. The author deftly intertwines analysis and narrative, interspersing his chapters with short ‘Chartist Lives’, relating the intimate and personal to the realm of the social and political. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Victorian Britain, specialists, students and general readers alike.
Author | : Henry Weisser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Stephen Roberts |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9783039113880 |
This book recovers the stories of two remarkable Victorian working men. Thomas Cooper and Arthur O'Neill were both imprisoned for seditious offences in 1843. The friendship they formed in Stafford Gaol lasted for fifty years. These two men wanted to be remembered as Chartist prisoners - but, talented and energetic, they also made their marks in other areas. Cooper was the author of a famous poem, The Purgatory of Suicides, and of novels; he knew well Thomas Carlyle and Charles Kingsley, and came into contact with Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Dickens. Later in life he became a lecturer in defence of Christianity. O'Neill worked with Joseph Sturge and Henry Richard for peace and international arbitration, attending a number of international peace conferences. An important contribution to Chartist studies, this book also examines in detail artisan literary activity, pacifism and Christian apologetics in Victorian Britain.