Expert: Joseph Logue - 9/22/2006

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Followup To. Hi Joe, Kieran here, i'm at Brighton University England, and i'm doing a paper called 'British Nationalism and its effects on the working class in the late 19th Century'. I'd call it second wave nationalism really, after the US and French Revolutions, post 1815 Waterloo. The creation of the Proletariat and the Bourgeoise through capitalism and as such, the needs for stability and competion. Defined nations like Germany and Italy in 1870, German Romanticism, mixed with French and Italian right-wing ideolgies. Where industrialistion needed something to fill the void left by kinship, Nationalism. But to sell it to the long established British population, needed popular culture, jingoism, the fuzzy wuzzy 'half-devil and half child' gave Britain 'justification' to the masses through the press, music hall, books etc. And thats what i need help on, sources and writers.The rising popular British culture, culminating in the Boer War. From the French radical, British Liberal, German intellectual to modernity. 'The Hun, i shit em' British popular culture.     

Question -
Hi Joseph, can you tell me the effects of British Nationalism on the working class in the late 19th Century?

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Hello Kieran,

Well, since that is such a broad question I will need to know exactly what it is that you are seeking to understand.  Effects on the social and political lives of the working classes?  Or the way that education was joined with nationalism?  I need you to write back and let me know more specifics.  I'll see what I can do then.

Thanks,

J Logue

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Hello again Kieran,

Well that was certainly a follow-up and it seems that you have almost answered your own question.  You have the right idea, and it is my opinion that you are on the right track.  It also strikes me that you are this close to writing an oustanding paper.

I understand the need for sources, so I did some research of my own.  You will need to do some reading and I hope that the titles I suggest will be available to you in Brighton.

The rise of English nationalism : a cultural history, 1740-1830 / Gerald Newman  [I think you'll need some background]

England and the English, an interpretation / Ford Madox Hueffer  [This older book is reflective of the spirit of the day, and the often self-reflexive nature of the "greatest power in the world"]

English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit, 1850-1980 / Martin J. Wiener  [Sociological study]

The Victorians : a world built to last / edited by George Perry and Nicholas Mason

I hope this helps you, Kieran, and was the information you sought.  As I said, it appears you have the right ideas going into the assignment.

Best of luck to you and thanks for visiting AllExperts.

Sincerely,

Joseph Logue