TY - BOOK AU - Ausubel,Herman TI - In Hard Times: Reformers Among the Late Victorians SN - 9780231915328 PY - 1960///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901) KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/ausu91532 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231884198.jpg ER -