http://hdl.handle.net/2436/6307 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:33:38 GMT 2013-05-23T00:33:38Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27211 Title: Japan 1868-1945: From Isolation to Occupation Authors: Benson, John; Matsumura, Takao Abstract: The history of Imperial Japan, from the Meiji Restoration through to defeat and occupation at the end of the Second World War, is central to any understanding of the way in which modern Japan has developed and will continue to develop in the future. This wide-ranging accessible and up-to-date interpretation of Japanese history between 1868 and 1945 provides both a narrative and analysis. Describing the major changes that took place in Japanese political, economic and social life during this period, it challenges widely-held views about the uniqueness of Japanese history and the homogeneity of Japanese society. (Longman) Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27211 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27215 Title: We must stand by our own bairns: ILP men and suffrage militancy, 1905-1914 Authors: Ugolini, Laura Abstract: The Independent Labour Party (ILP) has long enjoyed a reputation as the pre-First World War political party most sympathetic both to feminism in general, and to the suffrage movement in particular. Indeed, it is only recently that such a reputation has been placed under scrutiny. Ironically, considering the amount of attention devoted to it by Edwardian ILPers, the party's relationship with suffrage militancy is also an area that has as yet received little close attention, and it is on this relationship that the present article focuses. More specifically, this article concentrates on male ILP members, in order to shed light both on their attitudes towards women's role in society and in politics, and on their own identities as socialists and as men, providing an important insight into male ILPer's gendered politics. Suffrage militancy's role in jolting ILP men out of a purely formal advocacy of suffrage, forcing them to question the nature of their socialist beliefs and the place of women's enfranchisement in their practical programme, is explored. Further, the article considers how ideas about women's role in politics had to be re-thought as militancy developed and changed in the decade before the outbreak of the First World War. It questions how far ILP men were able to adapt their ideas of 'political womanhood' to accommodate women who not only made an uncompromising entrance into the political arena, but also undertook both illegal and violent activities. Underlying the whole discussion, finally, is the question of how far the suffrage movement in general and militancy in particular forced ILP men to re-think their own masculine identities, and to make changes to their own personal relationships with women. And perhaps more fundamentally, the article questions how far notions of socialist manliness based on chivalrousness and protectiveness towards women were modified, in the light of militants' growing determination to do without male protection and patronage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] (Ebsco) Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27215 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27205 Title: Men, masculinities and menswear advertising, c.1890-1914 Authors: Ugolini, Laura Abstract: "A Nation of Shopkeepers" reflects research on retail history and cultures of consumption. The contributors challenge existing ideas about retail development, showing how, for example, large-scale retailers played a far lesser role in the development of the modern city that is generally thought, and how the success of department stores was determined less by "entrepreneurial" spirit and more by the unforseen consequences of legislation. With the growing interest in cultures of consumption, this book should be useful to specialists and students in retail history, human geography and social and cultural history. (I.B. Taurus publishers) Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27205 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27204 Title: A Nation of Shopkeepers: Retailing in Britain 1550-2000 Authors: Benson, John; Ugolini, Laura Abstract: "A Nation of Shopkeepers" reflects research on retail history and cultures of consumption. The contributors challenge existing ideas about retail development, showing how, for example, large-scale retailers played a far lesser role in the development of the modern city that is generally thought, and how the success of department stores was determined less by "entrepreneurial" spirit and more by the unforseen consequences of legislation. With the growing interest in cultures of consumption, this book should be useful to specialists and students in retail history, human geography and social and cultural history. (I.B. Taurus publishers) Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27204 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z