England in the Eighteen-Eighties: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom - Hardcover

Lynd, Helen Merrell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887380042 ISBN 13: 9780887380044

Publisher: Routledge, 1984

Synopsis

Amid the current political disputes regarding the character of the Victorian period in England—whether economic individualism or social responsibility were the major characteristics of the time—this fine, scholarly study, first published in 1945, is again available to provide a benchmark by which to assess the political claims. The scholarly and political value of the work is clear; it is deeply researched, clearly written, and establishes guidelines for contemporary social action and thought.

In his perceptive introduction to this edition, Pomper points to lessons the book provides for contemporary politics: the values of careful documentation and research that characterized the work and enhanced the results of Fabianism; the need for a skeptical optimism in social thought; and an understanding of the contrasting fate of socialism in Great Britain and the United States.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerald M. Pomper is professor of political science,  Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University. He is the author of Party Renewal in America; Theory and Practice and Voter’s Choice: Varieties of American Electoral Behavior.

Review:

“England in the Eighteen-Eighties is a significant work which must be given the careful attention of every student of late Victorian England.”

—American Historical Review

“The author has carried out [her] design with real success: her book is first-class social history. She has complete mastery over her materials; she writes with understanding and felicity; she has capably isolated the dynamic characteristics of the period she is describing.”

—New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0887380042
• ISBN 13: 9780887380044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 526