A New History of Britain since 1688(1st Edition) Four Nations and an Empire by SusanKingsleyKent Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-984650-4, ISBN: 0-19-984650-2
"For decades, scholars have been urging a "four nations" approach to British history. Susan Kingsley Kent's ambitious and timely A New History of Britain since 1688: Four Nations and an Empire finally delivers on that promise. Ranging from 1688 to the present, the book covers developments in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, along with the British empire, providing a lively and often gripping account of the ever-changing conflicts t ..."
Queen Victoria(1st Edition) Gender and Empire (The World in a Life Series) by SusanKingsleyKent Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-025000-3, ISBN: 0-19-025000-3
"Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Queen Victoria. As one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, Queen Victoria gave her name to an age filled with enormous possibilities and perplexing contradictions. At the time of Victoria's birth, Britain ruled over what was fast becoming the greatest empire in the world, containing millions of non-white, non-Christian peo ..."
"Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined their powerlessness in both public and private."
The Global 1930s(1st Edition) The international decade (Decades in Global History) by Marc Matera, SusanKingsleyKent Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-73831-6, ISBN: 0-415-73831-8
"Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Kent and Matera contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and this volume illlustrates how the familiar ev ..."
"This stimulating volume presents an overview of key gender theories and debates, tracing the development of gender as an analytic category in the writing of history. Covering a broad timespan, Kent makes the origins, concepts and methods of gender history accessible to students, showing how they can use gender in their own historical studies."
Gender A World History (NEW OXFORD WORLD HISTORY SERIES) by SusanKingsleyKent, University Of Colorado Paperback, Published 2021 by Oxford University Press|Oup Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-062198-8, ISBN: 0-19-062198-2
"This book treats the representations, everyday lives, and relationships of men and women from ancient times to the present day across the world."
Aftershocks The Politics of Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 by Professor SusanKingsleyKent Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-9333-5, ISBN: 1-4039-9333-5
"This book examines the impact of collective trauma arising out of the Great War on the politics of the 1920s in Britain. Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock and imagery presenting the traumatized psyche as shattered contributed to Britons understandings of their political selves in the 1920s. It connects the force of emotions to the political culture of a decade which saw extraordinary violence against those regarded as un-En ..."
"Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines:* the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women* how power relationships were established within various gender systems* how women and men reacted to the i ..."
Making Peace(Reprint) The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain: 5275 (Princeton Legacy Library, 5275) by SusanKingsleyKent Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Princeton University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-691-65537-6, ISBN: 0-691-65537-5
"These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions."
"Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa: the slave traders and slaves, missionaries and explorers, imperialists and miners, farmers, settlers, ..."
"Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990 is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present, focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural, and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles, responsibilities, and identities of men and women* how power relationships were established within these various gender systems* how women and me ..."
"In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings together, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame."
Making Peace The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain (Princeton Legacy Library) by SusanKingsleyKent Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Princeton University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-691-65679-3, ISBN: 0-691-65679-7
"Leed, Eric J. No Man's Land: Combat and Identity in World War I, Cambridge,
1979. Lewis, Jane. ... Liddington, Jill. The Life and Times of a Respectable Rebel:
Selina Cooper, 1864– 1946. London, 1984. Liddington, Jill, and Jill Norris. One
Hand ... Longenbach, James. “The Women ... Monstrous Regiment: The Story of
the Women of the First World War. ... Electoral Reform in War and Peace, 1906–
18. London, 1978. . “Politicians and the ..."
"Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Kent and Matera contend that the 1930s are better characterized by the development of internationalist impulses and transnational connections, and this volume illlustrates how the familiar ev ..."
"Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The alliance of respectable" middle-class women with prostitutes, t ..."
"Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa: the slave traders and slaves, missionaries and explorers, imperialists and miners, farmers, settlers, ..."
" Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The alliance of respectable" middle-class women with prostitute ..."
Making Peace The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain by SusanKingsleyKent Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 1993 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-03140-8, ISBN: 0-691-03140-1
" Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I. The war had often been explained and justified to the British public by means of images that portrayed women as ..."
"Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The alliance of respectable" middle-class women with prostitutes, t ..."