Biblioteca / 2010-2021
Dorothy Thompson. The Dignity of Chartism: Essays.
CONTENTS
Introduction. Rethinking the Chartist Movement: Dorothy Thompson (1923– 2011) / Stephen Roberts
PART I
INTERPRETING CHARTISM
1 – Chartism as an Historical Subject
2 – The Languages of Class
3 – Who Were ‘the People’ in 1842?
4 – Women Chartists
5 – ‘The Question “What is a Chartist?” Answered’: Chartist Tracts
6 – Chartist Autobiographies
PART II
A LOCAL STUDY
7 – Chartism in the Industrial Areas
8 – ‘The Dignity of Chartism’: Halifax as a Chartist Centre (con E. P. Thompson)
PART III
THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE
9 – ‘The Most Well-Loved Man’: Feargus O’Connor
10 – ‘A Radical until the End of His Days’: George Julian Harney
11 – ‘The Best-Remembered Chartist’: Ernest Jones
12 – ‘Two of the Most Influential of Radical Voices’: John Fielden and Joseph Sturge
PART IV
REPERCUSSIONS
13 – The Chartists in 1848
14 – The British State and Chartism
15 – The Post-Chartist Decades
PART V
LOOKING BACK
16 – Reflections on Marxist Teleology