Donald Read
EDWARDIAN ENGLAND 1[zasłonięte]901-19
Stan używany, bardzo dobry, środek czysty, zdjęcie wystawionego egz.
Stron / pages 335
22,00 x 14,50 cm
Harrap London 1973
A companion volume to Donald Read's recently published Edwardian England 1[zasłonięte]901-19, this vast collection of documen-tary extracts puts on record the ideas of the people and the vital events of the first fifteen years of the twentieth century in England. In order to givetheclearest possible picture of how the Edwardians saw their times, the editor has used a wide variety of sources including newspapers, books, speeches, political tracts and letters.
Donald Read has organised the documen-tary extracts into fourteen topics, which include many subjects that still have relevance today. The topie headings arę: Optimism & Pessimism, The Declining Birthrate, Rural & Urban Crisis, Class & Behaviour, Mass Communication & Mass Entertainment, Constitutional Change, The lndividual &the State, Tariff Reform, The Empire, The Problem of Poverty, Labour versus Capital, Votes for Women, Home Rule, and The Corning of War.
One of the most influential modern historians in England today, Donald Read has compiled a highly illuminating and entertaining collection of documents which describe, with the immediacy induced by contemporary sources, Edwardian society, its people and its problems, its sunlight and its shadows. Dr Read argues in particular that the Edwardians were their own best critics and thus this selection of documents avoids any possible distortions of hindsight.
The companion volume to
DOCUMENTS FROM EDWARDIAN ENGLAND
'He underlines some of his sharpest social points by a moving, and again often dismaying selection of photographs.., It was astrange, complex, hag-ridden period, casting shadows for good and evil of what was to come. Historians like Dr Read understand it better than those of us who were bojn into it, and > help us to understand it too' C. P. SNÓW/FINANCIAL TIMES
'An admirable political and socio-economic skeleton of the period, complete with facts and statistics' JOHN RAYMON& NEWSTATESMAN
'An admirable antidote to the present coffee-table notion of the Edwardian era as a protracted garden-party or vicarage fete' SCOTSMAN
'Challenges the conventional "halcyon days" view of society before 1914 and shows it as a time of deep unrest and social change' MORNING STAR
'The chief value and interest of this well written and carefully detailed book is the picture it gives of movements in everyday social life and of political activities and changes' STAGE
'Wide-ranging, it includes a survey of the arts in the sociaPand political batkground ... generously illustrated with contem-porary photographs and cartoons' TEACHER
'Telling passages in the ideology of Edwardian liberalism, on the post-impressionist exhibition of 1910, and on the decline of spirit drinking . . . concise, accurate and graphic detail . . . frepuent and well-chosen illustrations... Donald Read is an erudite and unflagging guide' IRISHINDEPENDENT
The first modern, comprehensive, generał guide to this crowded era... we arę unlikely to see soon again so good a generał account of the period' TRIBUNE
is Reader in Modern English History at the University of Kent, where hę has been ' sińce 1965. Prior to that hę was involved in universities in his native North of England, and his books from that period concen-trated mainly on the history of the North sińce the Industrial Revolution, often linking local history with national history. Dr Read's The English Provinces 1[zasłonięte]760-19 (published in 1964) has become accepted as a model of how this can be done. Among other books hę has written are: Peterloo, the Massacre and its Background, Press and People 1[zasłonięte]760-18, Opinion i n Three English C/ź/es, and Edwardian England 1[zasłonięte]901-19. The last of these, together with Documents from Edwardian England, represents the first major result of a change in his chronological centre to the Edwardian period, and sińce 1965 hę has also turned his interest to generał English history. Hę fmds the new University of Kent presents a stimulating challenge to a specialist historian such as himself, to justify his specialization and to relate itto other subjects and to society, as the university lays especial emphasis upon inter-disciplinary courses. From 1[zasłonięte]970-19 hę was chairman of the University's history board. Hę still keeps up his interest in the connection between local and national history and is currently Chairman of the History Association's local history committee.
Introduction 7
1 Optimism and Pessimism 10
2 The Declining Birth-Rate 14
3 Rural and Urban Crisis 20
4 Class and Behaviour 36
5 Mass Communication and Mass Entertainment 64 Constitutional Change 75
The Individual and the State 95
8 Tariff Reform • 128
9 The Empire 158
10 The Problem of Poverty 200 11 Labour versus Capital 270
12 'Yotes for Women' 286
13 Home Rule 300
14 The Corning of War 319 Acknowledgments 332 Index 333
