TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bevir,Mark
TI  - The Making of British Socialism
SN  - 9780691150833
AV  - HX241.5 .B48 2017
U1  - 335.1 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - History
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Socialism
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American romanticism
KW  - British Marxism
KW  - British socialism
KW  - British socialists
KW  - E. B. Bax
KW  - Edward Carpenter
KW  - Fabian policy
KW  - Fabian socialism
KW  - Fabianism
KW  - Fabians
KW  - George Bernard Shaw
KW  - German idealism
KW  - H. M. Hyndman
KW  - Independent Labor Party
KW  - James Bronterre O'Brien
KW  - Labor Church movement
KW  - Leo Tolstoy
KW  - Liberal Party
KW  - Marxism
KW  - Marxist movement
KW  - Peter Kropotkin
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Sheffield Socialist Society
KW  - Sidney Webb
KW  - Social Democratic Federation
KW  - Socialist League
KW  - Thomas Davidson
KW  - Tory
KW  - Victorian culture
KW  - William Morris
KW  - anarchism
KW  - anarchy
KW  - capitalism
KW  - collective ownership
KW  - collectivism
KW  - communal utopianism
KW  - dilemmas
KW  - ethical positivism
KW  - ethical socialism
KW  - evangelicalism
KW  - evolutionary sociology
KW  - faith
KW  - immanentism
KW  - immanentist theology
KW  - liberal economics
KW  - liberal radicalism
KW  - liberalism
KW  - marginal economic theory
KW  - mass literacy
KW  - medievalist historiography
KW  - neoclassical economic theory
KW  - permeation
KW  - personal transformation
KW  - playwrights
KW  - political action
KW  - political actions
KW  - political thought
KW  - popular politics
KW  - radical democracy
KW  - religion
KW  - religious belief
KW  - religious worship
KW  - republican positivism
KW  - revolution
KW  - romanticism
KW  - science
KW  - secularization
KW  - self-understanding
KW  - sexual relations
KW  - simple life
KW  - social change
KW  - social democratic state
KW  - social justice
KW  - social practices
KW  - social reforms
KW  - socialist philosophers
KW  - socialist projects
KW  - socialists
KW  - trade unionism
KW  - trade unions
KW  - traditions
KW  - welfare liberalism
KW  - welfare liberals
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Chapter one. Introduction: Socialism and History --; Chapter two. The Victorian Context --; Part one. The Marxists --; Chapter three. Ernest Belfort Bax --; Chapter four. Henry Mayers Hyndman --; Chapter five William Morris --; Chapter six. The Social Democratic Federation --; Part two. The Fabians --; Chapter Seven. Theories of Rent --; Chapter eight. George Bernard Shaw --; Chapter Nine. Sidney Webb --; Chapter Ten. Permeation and Independent Labor --; Part Three. The Ethical Socialists --; Chapter Eleven. Welfarism, Socialism, and Religion --; Chapter Twelve. American Romanticism and British Socialism --; Chapter Thirteen. Ethical Anarchism --; Chapter Fourteen. The Labour Church Movement --; Conclusion. Socialism, Labor, and the State --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope promoting social justice, personal transformation, and radical democracy. Mark Bevir shows that British socialists responded to the dilemmas of economics and faith against a background of diverse traditions, melding new economic theories opposed to capitalism with new theologies which argued that people were bound in divine fellowship. Bevir utilizes an impressive range of sources to illuminate a number of historical questions: Why did the British Marxists follow a Tory aristocrat who dressed in a frock coat and top hat? Did the Fabians develop a new economic theory? What was the role of Christian theology and idealist philosophy in shaping socialist ideas? He explores debates about capitalism, revolution, the simple life, sexual relations, and utopian communities. He gives detailed accounts of the Marxists, Fabians, and ethical socialists, including famous authors such as William Morris and George Bernard Shaw. And he locates these socialists among a wide cast of colorful characters, including Karl Marx, Henry Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde. By showing how socialism combined established traditions and new ideas in order to respond to the changing world of the late nineteenth century, The Making of British Socialism turns aside long-held assumptions about the origins of a major movement
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