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Title: Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940 and Paternalism and Politics: The Revival of Paternalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Reviews).
Author: Lindsay Wilson
Publication: Journal of Social History (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Journal of Social History
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Page: 729(4)Article Type: Book ReviewDistributed by Thompson Gale
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Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism: Middle-Class Identity in Britain, 1800-1940. Edited by Alan Kidd and David Nicholls (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. xi plus 223 pp.).
Paternalism and Politics: The Revival of Paternalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Kim Lawes (New York: St. Martinis Press, Inc., 2000. x plus 229 pp.). These texts are united in their departures from earlier social histories, whether practiced by the Annales school or by E. P. Thompson and his followers, which sought to explain culture, language, and politics in terms of the underlying social or material structure. Both are revisionist works. However, whereas Kidd and Nicholls begin their anthology with a discussion of how post-structuralism has led to a reworking...
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