Structures and Transformations in Modern British History

David Feldman teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism. He has written on Jewish history as well as on the history of migration, immigration and emigration in early modern and modern Britain. He is the author of Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture, 1840–1914 (1994) and most recently (together with Leo Lucassen and Jochen Oltmer) he edited Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe, 1880–2004 (2006). He is currently writing a book on immigration and public policy in Britain since 1600. Jon Lawrence lectures in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has written widely on the social, political and cultural history of modern Britain, and is the author of Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867–1914 (1998), Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair (2009), and with Miles Taylor, Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820 (1997). He is currently writing a book on class and the politics of social identity in modern Britain.

• Introduction: structures and transformations in British historiography David Feldman and Jon Lawrence; 1. Coping with rapid population growth: how England fared in the century preceding the Great Exhibition of 1851 E. A. Wrigley; 2. The 'urban renaissance' and the mob: rethinking civic improvement over the long eighteenth century Emma Griffin; 3. Forms of 'government growth', 1780–1830 Joanna Innes; 4. Family formations: Anglo India and the familial proto-state Margot Finn; 5. The commons, enclosure and radical histories Alan Howkins; 6. Engels and the city: the philosophy and practice of urban hypocrisy Tristram Hunt; 7. The decline of institutional reform in nineteenth-century Britain Jonathan Parry; 8. British women and cultures of internationalism, c.1815–1914 Anne Summers; 9. Psychoanalysis, history and national culture Daniel Pick; 10. Labour and the politics of class, 1900–40 Jon Lawrence; 11. The dialectics of liberation: the Old Left, the New Left and the counter-culture Alastair J. Reid; 12. Why the English like turbans: a history of multiculturalism in one country David Feldman.

"...extraordinary collection of essays..." -Sonya O. Rose, Victorian Studies