Private lives, public spirit : a social history of Britain, 1870-1914

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Private lives, public spirit : a social history of Britain, 1870-1914

José Harris

Oxford University Press, 1993

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Bibliography: p. [257]-276

Includes index

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This study examines the social history of Britain between 1870 and 1914. The author, while not underestimating World War I, demonstrates that many of the far-reaching social changes apparent afterwards actually had their origins in the 1870s and 1880s. The book identifies important trends and movements, providing an overview of late Victorian and Edwardian society. At the same time, a sense of idiosyncrasy, nuance and diversity is conveyed. While the period has often been regarded as one of great moral and political certainty, the author reveals the doubts and ambivalencies of contemporaries. She shows that in many respects Great Britain in this period was a ramshackle and amorphous society, characterized by a myriad of contradictory opinions.

目次

  • Part 1 Themes and interpretations - an overview of British society 1870-1914: continuity and change
  • the impact of empire
  • the emergence of class
  • individualism and collectivism
  • from "ancient constitution" to "great society"
  • the nationalization of culture
  • gender
  • "modernity" and the "lost domain"
  • paradox and plurality
  • Victorians and Edwardians. Part 2 Demography, death and disease: people and cities
  • patterns of fertility
  • patterns of mortality
  • society, sickness and medicine. Part 3 Family and household: the "Victorian" family
  • family size and structure
  • domestic economy
  • patriarchalism
  • motherhood
  • childhood
  • sexual relations
  • family life. Part 4 Property: perceptions of property
  • the distribution of property
  • aristocratic property
  • middle-class property
  • working-class property
  • property and politics. Part 5 Work: work and gentility
  • structure, skill and organization
  • alienation, leisure and the work ethic
  • industrial relations
  • work and the "working class"
  • culture and context. Part 6 Religion: the issue of "secularization"
  • the sociology of church attendance
  • the churches and civic structure
  • the structure of belief
  • religion and society. Part 7 Society and the state: the social bases of the state
  • the mid-Victorian state
  • changing political culture
  • contradiction and expansion
  • finance, bureaucracy and social policy
  • crime, law and police
  • ambiguities of power. Part 8 Society and social theory: the problem of "society"
  • atomism, organicism and social evolution
  • historicism and idealism
  • social theory and the "social problem"
  • the language of race
  • perceptions ofpoverty
  • decay and degeneration
  • society, liberty and character - echoes of Greece and Rome.

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