{"product_id":"the-independent-man-citizenship-and-gender-politics-in-georgian-england-gender-in-history-9780719070556","title":"The Independent Man Citizenship and Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In exploring the relationship between gendered ideas of masculine behaviour and concepts of the political individual, this important book fills a yawning gap in both political history and gender history of the eighteenth century.’\u003cbr\u003eKaren Harvey, Reviews in History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘To say that this book on masculinity and Georgian politics in long overdue does not take away from Matthew McCormack’s achievement... It has been left to McCormack to re-conceptualize the history of political subjectivity through gender’s powerful organizing frame.’\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Jenks, Canadian Review of History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a very thoughtful and thought-provoking study of the meaning of the term 'independent' in Georgian England. McCormack moves beyond high politics and social history to combine the two in a fascinating discussion of electoral history.'\u003cbr\u003eEmma McLeod, University of Stirling (History - the journal of the Historical Association)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Gender, obligation and political virtue\u003cbr\u003e2. Act the part of honest independent men\u003cbr\u003e3. From the Civil War to the Seven Years War\u003cbr\u003e4. Declarations of Independence, 1760-76\u003cbr\u003e5. Rethinking the independent Englishman, 1770-97\u003cbr\u003e6. Anti-Jacobinism and citizenship, 1789-1815\u003cbr\u003e7. Independence versus Old Corruption, 1815-29\u003cbr\u003e8. Independence and the Reform debates, 1830-2\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736163266903,"sku":"9780719070556","price":19.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-independent-man-citizenship-and-gender-politics-in-georgian-england-gender-in-history-9780719070556","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}