Socialist Britain

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173729
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of British Socialism written by Mark Bevir and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling look at the origins of British socialism 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.

Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Leckie Jarman
Publisher : Taplinger Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialism in Britain written by Thomas Leckie Jarman and published by Taplinger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : June Hannam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134766688
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialist Women written by June Hannam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating new study examines the experiences of women involved in the socialist movement during its formative years in Britain and the active role they played in campaigning for the vote. By giving full attention to this much-neglected group of women, Socialist Women examines and challenges the orthodox views of labour and suffrage history. Torn between competing loyalties of gender, class and politics, socialist women did not have a fixed identity but a number of contested identities. June Hannam and Karen Hunt probe issues that created divisions between these women, as well as giving them the opportunity to act together. In three fascinating case studies they explore: * women's suffrage * women and internationalism * the politics of consumption. Believing above all that being a woman was vital to their politics, these individuals sought to develop a woman-focused theory of socialism and to put this new politics into practice.

Author : Michael J. Rosen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691175349
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers' Tales written by Michael J. Rosen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of political tales—first published in British workers’ magazines—selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditional literary forms appeared frequently in socialist-leaning British periodicals, such as the Clarion, Labour Leader, and Social Democrat. Based on familiar genres—the fairy tale, fable, allegory, parable, and moral tale—and penned by a range of lesser-known and celebrated authors, including Schalom Asch, Charles Allen Clarke, Frederick James Gould, and William Morris, these stories were meant to entertain readers of all ages—and some challenged the conventional values promoted in children’s literature for the middle class. In Workers’ Tales, acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen brings together more than forty of the best and most enduring examples of these stories in one beautiful volume. Throughout, the tales in this collection exemplify themes and ideas related to work and the class system, sometimes in wish-fulfilling ways. In “Tom Hickathrift,” a little, poor person gets the better of a gigantic, wealthy one. In “The Man Without a Heart,” a man learns about the value of basic labor after testing out more privileged lives. And in “The Political Economist and the Flowers,” two contrasting gardeners highlight the cold heart of Darwinian competition. Rosen’s informative introduction describes how such tales advocated for contemporary progressive causes and countered the dominant celebration of Britain’s imperial values. The book includes archival illustrations, biographical notes about the writers, and details about the periodicals where the tales first appeared. Provocative and enlightening, Workers’ Tales presents voices of resistance that are more relevant than ever before.

Author : Max Beer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of British Socialism written by Max Beer and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Baris Tufekci
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030349985
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Socialist Ideas of the British Left’s Alternative Economic Strategy written by Baris Tufekci and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first book-length study of the political and economic ideas of the British left’s Alternative Economic Strategy in the 1970s and early 1980s. Discussing the AES’s approaches to capitalism, the nation state and the working class, it argues that existing academic accounts have significantly overstated the radicalism of the strategy. Perhaps more notable, especially in the light of its stated ‘revolutionary’ aims, was the extent of its moderation – its continuities with post-war Labour revisionism, its marked reluctance to look beyond the market economy, the degree of its preoccupation with Britain’s global-economic status, and its inability to break with Labourist politics of class co-operation in the national interest. While the book argues that the AES was the last ‘class politics’ socialist initiative in mainstream British politics, it also explores the ways in which its ideas perhaps prepared the way for New Labour in the 1990s, and its relationship with 'Corbynism' since 2015.

Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Waters
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804717588
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1884-1914 written by Chris Waters and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Keith Laybourn
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Socialism in Britain, C. 1881-1951 written by Keith Laybourn and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the years 1881-1951 when socialism moved from being a small movement to a powerful organisation. At this time socialism became moderate and parliamentary in form, discarding Marxism and ethical socialism en route.