This text is an early scholarly history of the Women's Social and Political Union, the militant suffragette movement led by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel. During the years before World War I, the WSPU carried out a campaign of widespread arson in an attempt to force the Liberal government to grant women the vote. Drawing upon a variety of previously unpublished sources, the author examines the reasons for the remarkable effectiveness of militant tactics in making women's enfranchisement a political issue of central importance, and shows why militancy fails to secure this right prior to the outbreak of war in 1914. He also assesses the influence of the great social and political changes wrought by the war on the ultimate success of the campaign in 1918.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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notes, bibliography, index
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Höhe: 147 mm
Breite: 221 mm
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978-0-7512-0173-4 (9780751201734)
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Enter the Pankhursts; the founding of the WSPU; militancy begins; to London; rapid growth; the split; to Hyde Park!; frustration mounts; violence begins; the truce; the truce renewed; violence, flight and divided counsels; the Pethick-Lawrences depart; Bromley and Bow, and its aftermath; the arson campaign; the great scourge; the arson campaign continued; the end of the militant campaign. Epilogue: the vote, and after.
