Human Tradition in Modern Britain

Caroline Litzenberger is associate professor of history at Portland State University. Eileen Groth Lyon is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Fredonia.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 John Locke: Politics, Philosophy, and Public ServiceChapter 3 Sisters, Shopkeepers, and Dissenters: Singlewomen in Britain at the Turn of the Eighteenth CenturyChapter 4 Charles Townshend and Eighteenth-century British PoliticsChapter 5 Evangelical ReligionChapter 6 Captain Rock, Captain Swing: "Primitive" Rebels and Radical Politics in England and Ireland, 1790-1845Chapter 7 The Oxford Movement in Wales: A Catholic Revival in a Protestant LandChapter 8 Albert and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Creating the Ceremonial of IndustryChapter 9 The Indian Rebellion of 1857: A Crisis in British Imperial ConsciousnessChapter 10 Charles Bradlaugh, Militant Unbelief, and the Civil Rights of AtheistsChapter 11 In Fits and Starts: The Education Struggle in Nineteenth-century BritainChapter 12 A Woman's Right to Be Herself: The Political Journeys of Three British Suffrage CampaignersChapter 13 Mary Butler, Domesticity, Housewifery, and Identity in Ireland, 1899-1912Chapter 14 G. K. Chesterton and British National Identity in World War IChapter 15 Barbara Nixon: A Warden's BlitzChapter 16 Mothers First: Onitsha Women Battle the Government in Colonial and Postcolonial Nigeria, 1956-1964Chapter 17 Margaret Thatcher: The Woman and Her Times

The collection's scope is impressive, and the essays are beautifully written yet quite accessible. This volume will no doubt serve to make history come alive both for students and the general public. Highly recommended. All public and undergraduate collections.