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At the Margins of Victorian Britain Politics, Immorality and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century.

Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. Yet many of its citizens were denied basic civil rights. At the Margins of Victorian Britain focuses on the political means of policing unwanted 'others' in Victorian socie...

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Основен автор: Grube, Dennis.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: London : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=630880
Подобни документи: Print version:: At the Margins of Victorian Britain : Politics, Immorality and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century.
Резюме: Victorian Britain, at the head of the vast British Empire, was the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world. Yet many of its citizens were denied basic civil rights. At the Margins of Victorian Britain focuses on the political means of policing unwanted 'others' in Victorian society: the Irish, Catholics and Jews, atheists, prostitutes and homosexuals. In this groundbreaking study, Dennis Grube details the laws and conventions which were legally and culturally enforced in order to bar these 'others' from gaining power and influence in Victorian Britain. Utilizing a wide-ranging analys.
Физически характеристики: 1 online resource (232 pages)
ISBN: 9780857722577
0857722573