
The Dignity of Chartism
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Throughout her essays, Thompson strikes a delicate balance between on-the-ground accounts of local uprisings, snappy portraits of high-profile Chartist figures as well as rank-and-file men and women, and more theoretical, polemical interventions.
Of particular historical and political significance is the previously unpublished substantial essay coauthored by Dorothy and Edward Thompson, a superb piece of local historical research by two social historians then on the brink of notable careers.
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Stephen Roberts is historian of Victorian Britain, with a particular interest in Chartism. He has written or edited a number of well-known books on this subject. He was taught, as both an undergraduate and postgraduate, by Dorothy Thompson. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow in Victorian History at Newman University, Birmingham.
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- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- Introduction: Rethinking the Chartist Movement: Dorothy Thompson (1923-2011) by Stephen Roberts
- I. Interpreting Chartism
- 1. Chartism as an Historical Subject
- 2. The Languages of Class
- 3. Who Were 'the People' in 1842?
- 4. Women Chartists
- 5. 'The Question "What is a Chartist?" Answered': Chartist Tracts
- 6. Chartist Autobiographies
- II. A Local Study
- 7. Chartism in the Industrial Areas
- 8. 'The Dignity of Chartism': Halifax as a Chartist Centre (with E. P. Thompson)
- III. The Leaders of the People
- 9. 'The Most Well-Loved Man': Feargus O'Connor
- 10. 'A Radical until the End of His Days': George Julian Harney
- 11. 'The Best-Remembered Chartist': Ernest Jones
- 12. 'Two of the Most Influential of Radical Voices': John Fielden and Joseph Sturge
- IV. Repercussions
- 13. The Chartists in 1848
- 14. The British State and Chartism
- 15. The Post-Chartist Decades
- V. Looking Back
- 16. Reflections on Marxist Teleology
- Further Reading
- Index
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