This new edition of a pioneering work, first published in 1971, studies the impact of industrialization on drinking habits and attitudes toward drink in England. The book had a major impact on writing about nineteenth-century social history, and continues today to be a much-used resource. This revised edition includes new material and assesses research done since 1971. It also features a fresh introduction which examines the book's place in the understanding of Victorian social history.

Drink and the Victorians: The temperance question in England, 1815-1872

History

Harrison, Brian Howard

Europe

Faber and Faber Ltd.

<p>The British feminist movement has often been studied, but so far nobody has written about its opponents. Dr Harrison argues that British feminism cannot be understood without appreciating the strength and even the contemporary plausibility of the Antis, as the opponents of women s suffrage were called.\nIn a fully documented approach which combines political with social history, he unravels the complex politics, medical, diplomatic and social components of the anti-suffrage mind, and clarifies the Antis central commitment to the idea of separate but complementary spheres for the two sexes.\nDr Harrison then analyses the history of organised anti-suffragism between 1908 and 1918, and argues that anti-suffragism is important for shedding light on the Edwardian feminists. The Antis also introduce us to important Victorian and Edwardian attitudes which are often forgotten and which differ markedly from the attitudes to women which are now familiar; on the other hand, his concluding chapter which surveys the period from 1918 to 1978 claims that many of these attitudes, though less frequently voiced in public, still influence present-day conduct. His book, published originally in 1978, therefore makes an important contribution towards the history of the British women s movement and towards understanding Britain in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.</p>

Separate Spheres: The Opposition to Woman Suffrage in Britain

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Holmes & Meier Pub

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