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4. Bringing the margins into the middle: reflections on racism, class and the racialized outsider.

Author

Meer, Nasar

Subjects
RACE & society, SOCIAL classes, NONFICTION, HISTORY
Abstract

This paper explores Virdee’s account of how racialized minorities in socialist movements ‘played an instrumental role in trying to align struggles against racism with those against class exploitation’ (p. 164). In so doing, Virdee makes an important intervention at a time when popular historians and other ideologues are colluding in the elevation of myths and – no doubt in their view – noble lies that preclude these stories. Moving through theoretical debates concerning the relationships between race and class, the nature and form of sociologies of ‘outsiders’, to political issues of mobilization, Virdee’s book successfully brings in from the margins an account the multi-ethnic character of the working class in England from the very moment of its inception. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2015
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5. Childcare Dilemmas: Religious Discourse and Services among Jewish and Christian 'Orphanages'.

Author

TANANBAUM, SUSAN L.

Subjects
*ORPHANAGES, *JEWISH orphanages, *JEWISH orphans, *CHILD care, *JEWS, *JEWISH charities, *HISTORY, *RELIGION
Abstract

This paper explores the goals of Jewish and Christian sponsored orphanages in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England and identifies ways that religious institutions served the needy, constructed their self-identify, and that of their 'inmates'. Christian charities, especially evangelical institutions such as Barnardo's and the National Children's Homes (NCH), focused not only on the rescue of children, but their salvation. Policy at Norwood, the Jewish orphanage, reflected a combination of Jewish charitable tradition, alongside a self- consciousness about reputation and anxiety over anti-Semitism, and anti-alienism. In response, Norwood developed an extensive programme designed to raise respectable, anglicised Jews who would remain members of Britain's Jewish community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2010
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7. THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE BRITISH PRESS, 1830s-1914: SPEED IN THE AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC JOURNALISM.

Author

Mayhall, Laura E. Nym, Collier, Patrick, Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan, and Wiener, Joel H.

Subjects
JOURNALISM, AMERICANIZATION, NONFICTION, HISTORY
Abstract

The article reviews the book "The Americanization of the British Press, 1830s-1914: Speed in the Age of Transatlantic Journalism," by Joel H. Wiener, par of the series Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media.

Published
2013
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19. Great Britain.

Author

Metzger, Edward Charles

Subjects
FRENCH foreign relations, BRITISH foreign relations, HISTORY, REIGN of Elizabeth I, England, 1558-1603
Abstract

Reviews the book `Good Newes From Fraunce: French Anti-League Propaganda in Late Elizabethan England,' by Lisa Ferraro Parmelee.

Published
1997

34. Book reviews.

Author

SPALL, JR., RICHARD F. and Startt, James D.

Subjects
BUSINESSMEN, NEWSPAPER publishing, BIOGRAPHIES, HISTORY
Abstract

Reviews the book `Lord Beaverbrook: A Life,' by Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie. A biography of the British press baron Lord Beaverbrook.

Published
1994