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  • In the Service of Empire

    Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony

    by Fae Dussart ...
    Series series Empire’s Other Histories
    Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide range of source material, from private papers to newspaper articles, ... Read more

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  • Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance

    Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, ... Read more

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    How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for ... Read more

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  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... Read more

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    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

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  • Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914

    From Chadwick to Booth

    Series series Seminar Studies
    The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of ... Read more

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  • The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    In Victorian England, the perception of girlhood arose not in isolation, but as one manifestation of the prevailing conception of femininity. Examining the assumptions that underlay the education and upbringing of middle-class girls, this book is also a study of the learning of gender roles in theory and reality. It was originally published in 1982.The first two sections examine the image of women ... Read more

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    by Linda Mahood ...
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  • Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

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  • Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

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  • Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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    by John Tosh ...
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