Eleanor Rathbone And The Politics Of Conscience

PEDERSEN, Susan

ISBN 10: 0300102453 / ISBN 13: 9780300102451

Editore: U.K / Yale, 2004

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When British women demanded the vote in the years before the First World War, they promised to use political rights to remake their country and their world. This is the story of Eleanor Rathbone, the woman who best fulfilled that pledge. Rathbone cut her political teeth in the suffrage movement in Liverpool, spent two decades crafting social reforms for poor women and children, and was for seventeen years their advocate in the House of Commons. She also played a critical role in imperial policymaking and in the opposition to appeasement. In the last decade of her life she sought to rescue Spanish republicans and Jews threatened by Hitler's rise to power. / With black&white photography. /// This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in near to fine condition-the top edge of the dustjacket slightly creased. (469 pages & 15 pages of introduction). This is a heavy book over 1kg, so there will be an extra postage charge.

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• Titolo: Eleanor Rathbone And The Politics Of Conscience
• Editore: U.K / Yale
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300102453
• ISBN 13: 9780300102451
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • MERSEYSIDE HISTORY
  • WOMENS HISTORY
  • BRITISH HISTORY

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Riassunto

When British women demanded the vote in the years before the First World War, they promised to use political rights to remake their country and their world. This is the story of Eleanor Rathbone, the woman who best fulfilled that pledge.
Rathbone cut her political teeth in the suffrage movement in Liverpool, spent two decades crafting social reforms for poor women and children, and was for seventeen years their advocate in the House of Commons. She also played a critical role in imperial policymaking and in the opposition to appeasement. In the last decade of her life she sought to rescue Spanish republicans and Jews threatened by Hitler’s rise to power.
In this important book, Susan Pedersen illuminates both the public and private sides of Rathbone’s life while restoring her to her rightful place as the most sophisticated feminist thinker and most effective British woman politician of the first half of the twentieth century.

Informazioni sull'autore

Susan Pedersen is professor of history at Columbia University.