Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law
Author/editor: Desmond Manderson
Year published: 2006
Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law links the controversial ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to the common law legal tradition that has recently invigorated the idea of "the duty of care." Desmond Manderson argues that the ethicist and lawyer struggle with the same basic questions of…
Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author/editor: Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell
Year published: 2004
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their…
Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists
Author/editor: Owen R. Ashton, Paul A. Pickering
Year published: 2002
This study of six Chartist Leaders portrays movements for democracy and social progress, and explores the role of the uneasy middle classes in campaigns for working-class rights. The comparative analysis provides insights in to the development of dissent, the nature of class and of radicalism in…
The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League
Author/editor: Paul Pickering, Alex Tyrell
Year published: 2000
Formed in 1839, the Anti-Corn Law League was one of the most important campaigns to introduce the ideas of economic liberalism into mainstream political discourse in Britain. Its aspiration for free trade played a crucial role in defining the agenda of nineteenth-century liberalism and shaping…
Songs without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice
Author/editor: Desmond Manderson
Year published: 2000
In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings.…
Women and the Great War
Author/editor: Bruce Scates, Raelene Frances
Year published: 1998
Women and the Great War focuses on women's experiences during the period of violent conflict - the Great War. It examines the role of women as peace activists as well as their role in the military and support services. Source materials, including historical documents, photographs and cartoons,…
Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford
Author/editor: Paul Pickering
Year published: 1995
In 1845 Frederick Engels wrote that 'Manchester is the seat of the most powerful unions, the central point of Chartism, the place which numbers the most Socialists'. There have been many local studies of the Chartist struggle for democratic political reform, but there is no major study of the…
The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939
Author/editor: Raelene Frances
Year published: 1994
The Politics of Work is concerned with the complex relationship between economic and technological change, the nature of sexual division in the workforce, and the role of union, employer and state activists. It carefully traces the impact of all of these factors on wage levels for men and women.…