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In Hard Times : Reformers Among the Late Victorians /

Ausubel, Herman

In Hard Times : Reformers Among the Late Victorians / Herman Ausubel. - 1 online resource

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Prologue -- I. 1688-1788-1888 -- II. The Long Trial -- III. The New Masters -- IV. The Unpeaceful Countryside -- V. Doing Good -- VI. Abiding Influences -- VII. Writers Protest -- VIII. Fighting Ecclesiastics -- IX. Politicians under Pressure -- X. Scrapping the Old -- XI. The Failure of a Campaign -- XII. Schemes Everywhere -- XIII. Schools as Weapons -- XIV. A Faith in Doubt -- XV. Other Englands -- XVI. In the Time of the Imperialists -- XVII. The Other Island -- XVIII. The Heyday of the Land Agitation -- XIX. No Parliament in Dublin -- XX. Contentious Men -- XXI. After the Victorians -- Notes -- Bibliography of Manuscripts -- Index

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Describes the history of the late Victorian reformers who advocated temperance, educational reorganization, social welfare legislation, land reform, socialism, bimetallism, tax and tariff revision, imperial reconstruction, Irish home rule, and other causes, and how this rise of reformers was influenced by the contemporary economic troubles in England.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231915328 9780231884198

10.7312/ausu91532 doi


HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901).