Catriona Pennell
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199590582
- eISBN:
- 9780191738777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590582.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
Chapter Two is the first in a series of three thematic chapters. It outlines how the British people came to understand the war and why Britain was fighting. Moreover, it considers how the British ...
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Chapter Two is the first in a series of three thematic chapters. It outlines how the British people came to understand the war and why Britain was fighting. Moreover, it considers how the British people constructed a positive image of the national self in 1914. How did they define the national cause? What was emphasized and why? How selective was the resulting vision? Was a new moral order created? If so, who was included and excluded? What defined appropriate and inappropriate behaviour? Finally, who disagreed with Britain being at war?Less
Chapter Two is the first in a series of three thematic chapters. It outlines how the British people came to understand the war and why Britain was fighting. Moreover, it considers how the British people constructed a positive image of the national self in 1914. How did they define the national cause? What was emphasized and why? How selective was the resulting vision? Was a new moral order created? If so, who was included and excluded? What defined appropriate and inappropriate behaviour? Finally, who disagreed with Britain being at war?
K. D. Reynolds
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207276
- eISBN:
- 9780191677601
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207276.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter explores the functions of patronage as exercised by early Victorian aristocratic women in their uses of charity. It is divided into three parts. The first section considers personal ...
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This chapter explores the functions of patronage as exercised by early Victorian aristocratic women in their uses of charity. It is divided into three parts. The first section considers personal charity — direct involvement with the individual in need — and examines the ways in which aristocratic women constructed their responsibilities and obligations towards the poor, relating it to an understanding of the functioning of a paternalist society. The second looks at the interaction between aristocratic women and organized philanthropy, arguing that in the context of middle-class philanthropic activity, aristocratic women continued to treat the poor as beneficiaries of patronage and to take advantage of their social position for the benefit of their dependants. The third section turns to their engagement with public causes and crises, suggesting through a pair of case-studies that the combination of class and gender gave aristocratic women a unique voice.Less
This chapter explores the functions of patronage as exercised by early Victorian aristocratic women in their uses of charity. It is divided into three parts. The first section considers personal charity — direct involvement with the individual in need — and examines the ways in which aristocratic women constructed their responsibilities and obligations towards the poor, relating it to an understanding of the functioning of a paternalist society. The second looks at the interaction between aristocratic women and organized philanthropy, arguing that in the context of middle-class philanthropic activity, aristocratic women continued to treat the poor as beneficiaries of patronage and to take advantage of their social position for the benefit of their dependants. The third section turns to their engagement with public causes and crises, suggesting through a pair of case-studies that the combination of class and gender gave aristocratic women a unique voice.
B. R. Nanda
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195672039
- eISBN:
- 9780199081417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195672039.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
The Quit India resolution, passed by the All India Congress Committee on 8 August 1942, called for the immediate end to British rule in India. This chapter discusses the imprisonment of Mahatma ...
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The Quit India resolution, passed by the All India Congress Committee on 8 August 1942, called for the immediate end to British rule in India. This chapter discusses the imprisonment of Mahatma Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee for two years and highlights the challenges faced by him during this period. Gandhi clarified that their non-violent rebellion was not a programme of seizure of power. The chapter talks of his rejection of the claim that it was sabotage and underground activity that had strengthened the national cause or brought freedom to India.Less
The Quit India resolution, passed by the All India Congress Committee on 8 August 1942, called for the immediate end to British rule in India. This chapter discusses the imprisonment of Mahatma Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee for two years and highlights the challenges faced by him during this period. Gandhi clarified that their non-violent rebellion was not a programme of seizure of power. The chapter talks of his rejection of the claim that it was sabotage and underground activity that had strengthened the national cause or brought freedom to India.
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300137316
- eISBN:
- 9780300156072
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300137316.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This book explores the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture, focusing on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880s to the 1990s. ...
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This book explores the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture, focusing on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880s to the 1990s. Unlike their East European contemporaries—who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate, stateless, and colonial—these individuals embraced the Russian- and Soviet-dominated Ukrainian community, incorporating their Jewish concerns in their Ukrainian-language writings. The author argues that the marginality of these literati as Jews fuelled their sympathy toward Ukrainians and their national cause. Providing extensive historical background, biographical detail, and analysis of each writer's poetry and prose, he shows how a Ukrainian-Jewish literary tradition emerged. Along the way, the author challenges assumptions about modern Jewish acculturation and Ukrainian–Jewish relations.Less
This book explores the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture, focusing on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880s to the 1990s. Unlike their East European contemporaries—who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate, stateless, and colonial—these individuals embraced the Russian- and Soviet-dominated Ukrainian community, incorporating their Jewish concerns in their Ukrainian-language writings. The author argues that the marginality of these literati as Jews fuelled their sympathy toward Ukrainians and their national cause. Providing extensive historical background, biographical detail, and analysis of each writer's poetry and prose, he shows how a Ukrainian-Jewish literary tradition emerged. Along the way, the author challenges assumptions about modern Jewish acculturation and Ukrainian–Jewish relations.
