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The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England 现代早期英格兰地方请愿的大众政治
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.4
Brodie Waddell
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One British Archive: Seeing the Rev. John Clifford Archives and the Gender of Passive Resistance 一个英国档案馆:查看约翰-克利福德牧师档案和被动抵抗的性别问题
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2024.56
Seth Koven
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Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England 缅怀逝者:中世纪晚期英格兰的死后行会成员资格
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.109
Rachael Harkes
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Halls of Power: Changing Political and Administrative Culture at the Palace of Westminster in the Sixteenth Century 权力大厅:十六世纪威斯敏斯特宫政治和行政文化的变迁
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.112
Elizabeth Biggs
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Instructing the Young and Comforting the Aged in the Norwich and Norfolk Institution for the Indigent Blind, ca. 1805–55 约 1805-55 年诺里奇和诺福克贫困盲人机构中的教导年轻人和安慰老年人
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.139
Susannah Ottaway, Adam Smart, Michael Schultz
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“A Ceremony of National and Representative Character”: The Four-Nations Politics of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee "具有国家和代表性质的典礼":维多利亚女王金禧的四国政治
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.111
Alison Hight
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An African American Anthropologist in Wales: St. Clair Drake and the Transatlantic Ecologies of Race Relations 威尔士的非裔美国人类学家:圣克莱尔-德雷克与跨大西洋种族关系生态学
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.113
Kieran Connell
{"title":"An African American Anthropologist in Wales: St. Clair Drake and the Transatlantic Ecologies of Race Relations","authors":"Kieran Connell","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2023.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In summer 1947, African American anthropologist John Gibbs St. Clair Drake arrived in Tiger Bay, the port neighborhood of Cardiff in South Wales, to begin field work for his doctoral thesis, “Race Relations in the British Isles.” Drake's academic reputation had already been established by the publication of <span>Black Metropolis</span> (1945), a seminal study of Chicago's so-called Black Belt that Drake co-authored with researcher Horace Cayton. What attracted him to Tiger Bay for his next project was a scandal that erupted on both sides of the Atlantic around Britain's growing population of what were referred to as <span>brown babies</span>. These children were the product of sexual encounters that sometimes took place between local white women and some of the 200,000 African American GIs who were at different points stationed across the United Kingdom during the later part of the Second World War. Using the extensive field notes Drake kept during his sojourn in Cardiff, this article reconstructs the nature and feel of a neighborhood where, by the 1940s, half of all residents were from ethnic minority backgrounds. Drake's work serves as a window onto the nature of racism and ideas about race in late-imperial Britain, alongside the parallel presence of metropolitan community life in Tiger Bay, one of Britain's oldest multicultural communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139917410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Anarchist and the Technocrat: Herbert Read, C. P. Snow, and the Future of Britain 无政府主义者与技术官僚:赫伯特-雷德、C. P. 斯诺和英国的未来
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.110
Matthew S. Adams
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Calico Madams and South Sea Cheats: Global Trade, Finance, and Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian England 印花布夫人和南海骗子:早期汉诺威英格兰的全球贸易、金融和民众抗议
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Abigail L. Swingen
{"title":"Calico Madams and South Sea Cheats: Global Trade, Finance, and Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian England","authors":"Abigail L. Swingen","doi":"10.1017/jbr.2023.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the summer of 1719, woolen and silk weavers took to the streets in cities and towns across England to protest the East India Company's importation of cotton calicoes from South Asia. English weavers viewed these popular imports as hurting their economic livelihoods. During the protests, they violently turned their anger against women wearing calico, tearing off their clothes and even throwing acid on some victims. Their actions spurred widespread condemnation, but the weavers got what they wanted in the end. In March 1721, an act banning the importation and use of all calico cloth in Britain received royal assent. On that same day, an act arranging the first in a series of financial rescues of the South Sea Company in the wake of the South Sea Bubble became law. Drawing from a range of archival and printed sources, the author explores the political and cultural connections between the calico crisis and the South Sea Bubble and investigates how reactions to both episodes intersected ideologically with fears of Jacobitism and foreign invasion and with broader anxieties about gender, the social order, and the political influence of financial corporations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Studies","volume":"230 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139745413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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“Free Passage” for the “King's True Liegemen”: The Meaning of Free Trade in a Corporate Age, 1555–1624 "国王的真正卫士 "的 "自由通行":1555-1624 年企业时代自由贸易的意义
IF 1 1区 历史学
Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2023.114
David Pennington
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