Politics, society and the middle class in modern Ireland:

"This book examines Irish society and politics from a class perspective. It provides a wide-ranging introduction to the involvement of the changing middle class in Irish political life and the public sphere between the eighteenth and late twentieth centuries. Sixteen historians trace the rise a...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2010
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Zusammenfassung:"This book examines Irish society and politics from a class perspective. It provides a wide-ranging introduction to the involvement of the changing middle class in Irish political life and the public sphere between the eighteenth and late twentieth centuries. Sixteen historians trace the rise and consolidation of middle-class political power, as well as significant conflicts within this class during a period of considerable social and political turmoil. The contributions comprise both analytical surveys covering long periods and case/area studies that provide new perspectives on crucial moments, movements and figures in Irish history"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
The men of property : politics and the languages of class in the 1790s / Jim Smyth -- William Thompson, class and his Irish context, 1775-1833 / Fintan Lane -- The rise of the Catholic middle class : O'Connellites in County Longford, 1820-50 / Fergus O'Ferrall -- 'Carrying the war into the walks of commerce' : exclusive dealing and the southern Protestant middle class during the Catholic emancipation campaign / Jacqueline Hill -- The decline of duelling and the emergence of the middle class in Ireland / James Kelly -- 'You'd be disgraced!' : middle-class women and respectibility in post-famine Ireland / Maura Cronin -- Middle-class attitudes to poverty and welfare in post-famine Ireland / Virginia Crossman -- The industrial elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War / Andy Bielenberg -- 'Another class'? : women's higher education in Ireland, 1870-1909 / Senia Pašeta -- Class, nation, gender and self : Katharine Tynan and the construction of political identities, 1880-1930 / Aurelia L.S. Annat -- Leadership, the middle classes and Ulster Unionism since the late-nineteenth century / N.C. Fleming -- William Martin Murphy, the Irish Independent and middle-class politics, 1905-19 / Patrick Maume -- Planning and philanthropy : travellers and class boundaries in urban Ireland, 1930-75 / Aoife Bhreatnach -- 'The stupid propaganda of the calamity mongers'? : the middle class and Irish politics, 1945-97 / Diarmaid Ferriter
Beschreibung:IX, 297 S. 23 cm

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