Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 358 g
Henry Fawcett and British Liberalism
Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 358 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-89274-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
When Henry Fawcett died in 1884 he was among the most famous men of his age. From a relatively humble background he had risen to become Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, a Liberal MP and a minister in Gladstone's second government. And he had achieved all this despite being blinded at the age of twenty-five in a shooting accident. Indeed, he was probably the first blind MP in British history. This book examines aspects of his life and career - his personal life, including his friendship with the critic and writer, Leslie Stephen, and his marriage to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the famous feminist; his intellectual contribution to Victorian culture as a friend and disciple of John Stuart Mill; his influential role as a populariser of economic thought from his position at Cambridge; his political outlook and campaigns as a radical Liberal who often opposed Gladstone, his party leader, for his timidity.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Personal Life and Sensibility: 1. 'Manly Fellows': Fawcett, Stephen and the liberal temper Stefan Collini; 2. Manliness, masculinity and the mid-Victorian temperament Boyd Hilton; 3. Victorian feminists: Henry and Millicent Garrett Fawcett David Rubinstein; Part II. Economics: 4. Henry Fawcett: the plain man's political economist Phyllis Deane; 5. The plain man's political economist: a discussion Donald Winch; 6. Henry Fawcett and the labour question in mid-Victorian Britain Giacomo Beccattini; Part III. Politics: 7. Henry Fawcett and the Social Science Association: liberal politics, political economy and the working class in mid-Victorian Britain Lawrence Goldman; 8. Fawcett as professional politician Christopher Harvie; Index.
