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Book The Diary of Beatrice Webb

Download or read book The Diary of Beatrice Webb written by Beatrice Potter Webb and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The diary of Beatrice Webb  Volume on 1873   1892   Glitter around and darkness within

Download or read book The diary of Beatrice Webb Volume on 1873 1892 Glitter around and darkness within written by Beatrice Webb and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Beatrice Webb

Download or read book The Diary of Beatrice Webb written by Beatrice Webb and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Glitter Around and Darkness Within   1873 1892

Download or read book Glitter Around and Darkness Within 1873 1892 written by Beatrice Webb and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Glitter Around and Darkness Within   1873 1892

Download or read book Glitter Around and Darkness Within 1873 1892 written by Beatrice Webb and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first of a four-volume collection that presents the diaries of English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer Beatrice Webb (1858-1943). In her diary Beatrice expressed her desire to write fully and creatively about her life and she kept her diary from 1873 until her death in 1943. In the diary Beatrice records the activities of her daily life, interactions with friends and family, and her most private thoughts and fears. This first volume of Webb's diary begins when she is fifteen, child of a cultivated and wealthy man who allowed his nine daughters a wide-ranging and eclectic education that was unusual for the times. Rejecting the path of successful marriage chosen by her sisters, she confronted the first great crisis of her life in her ill-starred passion for the politician Joseph Chamberlain. She sought refuge from that unhappy obsession in work with London's poor in the East End slums; then in 1890 she met Sidney Webb, civil servant and brilliant Fabian ideologist. Volume one ends with their marriage in 1892, an unlikely union that proved a remarkable success.

Book The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb

Download or read book The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb written by Deborah Epstein Nord and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-06-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beatrice Webb (sociologue).)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Diary of written by Beatrice Webb (sociologue).) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard Potter  Beatrice Webb   s Father and Corporate Capitalist

Download or read book Richard Potter Beatrice Webb s Father and Corporate Capitalist written by Geoffrey Channon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing studies of the Potter family tend to see Richard Potter through the lens of his most famous daughter, the socialist Beatrice Webb, or through Beatrice and her eight siblings, all girls. In this book, their father, whose business activities sustained the family’s upper-middle-class lifestyle and social position, is the subject of study in his own right. He was a new kind of businessman, a corporate capitalist, who operated on an international stage. This book looks inside the principal companies in which Potter was the chairman (the Great Western and Canadian Grand Trunk railways and the Gloucester Wagon Company) to assess his business acumen and his relationships with other leading business figures including Daniel Gooch, Edward Watkin and William Price. It also examines in detail Potter’s relationships with his wife and daughters, describing how he drew them into some of his key business decisions, and how he recognised the individuality of his daughters, encouraging them to read and think outside conventional boundaries, and to engage with famous intellectuals, most notably Herbert Spencer his life-long friend, who were part of the family circle, so shaping their lives as distinctive and strong adults. Beatrice had no doubt that he played a key part in shaping her professional life.

Book Margaret Harkness

Download or read book Margaret Harkness written by Flore Janssen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women’s political activism.

Book The Women in the Room

Download or read book The Women in the Room written by Nan Sloane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament. The body they set up was the Labour Representation Committee; six years later when 29 of its candidates were elected to the House of Commons it changed its name to the Labour Party. No women took part in that first meeting, but several watched from the public gallery. Amongst them was Isabella Ford, an active socialist and trade unionist who would have been familiar to most of the men assembled below. She had been asked by her friend, Millicent Fawcett, to attend and report back on what happened. Millicent was the President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and Isabella had been involved with the suffrage movement for a long time. A few years later she would become the first woman to speak at a Labour Party conference, moving a resolution on votes for women but, at the Party's inception in 1900, she and every other woman in the hall was silent. Throughout Labour's history, even in its earliest years, women were present in the room, but they were not always recorded or remembered. They came from many different backgrounds and they worked for the causes they believed in as organisers, campaigners, negotiators, polemicists, public speakers and leaders. They took on the vested interests of their time; sometimes they won. Yet the vast majority of them have been forgotten by the Labour movement that they helped to found. Even Margaret Bondfield, who became Britain's first woman cabinet minister, often barely merits a footnote. Women made real and substantial contributions to Labour's earliest years and had a significant impact on the Party's ability to attract and maintain women's votes after World War I. In addition to Margaret and Isabella, in many of the rooms in which the Labour Party found its feet, remarkable women wait to be rediscovered. This book tells their story.

Book Mother Jones Magazine

Download or read book Mother Jones Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-11 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Jones is an award-winning national magazine widely respected for its groundbreaking investigative reporting and coverage of sustainability and environmental issues.

Book Between Literature and Science

Download or read book Between Literature and Science written by Wolf Lepenies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The theme of this book is the conflict which arose in the early nineteenth century between, on the one hand, the literary and, on the other hand, the scientific intellectuals of Europe, as they competed for recognition as the chief analysts of the new industrial society in which they lived. This conflicts was epitomised by the confrontation between Matthew Arnold and T. H. Huxley, and later in that between F. R. Leavis and C. P. Snow. Sociology was born as the third major discipline, though in many ways it was a hybrid of the literary and the scientific traditions. The social sciences continue, even today, to oscillate between these two traditions. The author chronicles the rise of the new discipline by discussing the lives and work of the most prominent thinkers of the time, in England, France and Germany. These include John Stuart Mill, H. G. Wells, Beatrice and Sidney Webb and T. S. Eliot; Auguste Comte, Charles Peguy, Emile Durkheim; Stefan George, Thomas Mann, Max Weber and Karl Mannheim. At stake was the right to formulate a philosophy of life for contemporary society, and to predict and pre-empt the worst consequences of industrialization. The book presents a penetrating study of idealists grappling with reality, when industrial society was still in its infancy. It will be of interest to those studying sociology and its history as a discipline, but it is equally relevant to other social science subjects which may be said to have arisen at about the same time" -- Back cover.

Book Representing the Nation

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  • Author : Jessica Evans
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780415208703
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Representing the Nation written by Jessica Evans and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading cultural thinkers to ask what role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.

Book The Webbs in Asia

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  • Author : Sidney Webb
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 1992-06-18
  • ISBN : 1349123285
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Webbs in Asia written by Sidney Webb and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary recording the authors' extended tour of the Far East. It focuses on their impressions as the ancient civilizations of Japan, China and India, each in their separate ways, came to terms with the modern world.

Book Statisticians of the Centuries

Download or read book Statisticians of the Centuries written by C.C. Heyde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.