00934nam0-22002771i-450-99000636638040332119980601000636638FED01000636638(Aleph)000636638FED0100063663819980601g19181920km-y0itay50------ba--------00-yyWirtschaftliche und Soziale Grundlagen der Europaischen Kulturentwicklung aus der zeit von Casar bis auf Kail den GrossenAlfons Dopsch.WienVerlag von L.W. Siedel and Sohn1918-19202 v.24 cm930Dopsch,Alfons139141ITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK990006366380403321XXI A 26014899FGBCFGBCWirtschaftliche und Soziale Grundlagen der Europaischen Kulturentwicklung aus der zeit von Casar bis auf Kail den Grossen658915UNINAGIU0101169nam0 22003133i 450 BVE005748220231121125414.0900410084920140721d1994 ||||0itac50 baengnlz01i xxxe z01nProlegomenaquestions to be settled before the study of an author, or a textby Jaap MansfeldLeiden [etc.]E. J. Brill1994VI, 246 p.25 cmPhilosophia antiqua61001TO000008512001 Philosophia antiqua61180.7FILOSOFIA ANTICA. STUDIO E INSEGNAMENTO21930Storia del mondo antico, fino al 499 ca.22Mansfeld, JaapMILV016707070183489ITIT-0120140721IT-FR0017 Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio ApreaFR0017 NBVE0057482Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio Aprea 52S.SIJ. M Proleg.Man. 52BUN0000012255 VMB RS Fondo originale SijpesteijnA 2014072120140721 52Prolegomena1219916UNICAS04516nam 22007095 450 991103515590332120251029120425.09783032007858(electronic bk.)978303200784110.1007/978-3-032-00785-8(MiAaPQ)EBC32383078(Au-PeEL)EBL32383078(CKB)41986557400041(DE-He213)978-3-032-00785-8(EXLCZ)994198655740004120251029d2025 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Ashurst Sisters Nurturing Rebellion Across the Nineteenth Century /by Allison Scardino Belzer1st ed. 2025.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2025.1 online resource (404 pages)History SeriesPrint version: Belzer, Allison Scardino The Ashurst Sisters Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9783032007841 Chapter 1. Introduction: “Daring Rebels” -- Part I The Foundations of Rebellion -- Chapter 2. William H. and Elizabeth Brown Ashurst -- Chapter 3. Domestic Radicals: The Muswell Hill Brigade -- Part II Early Campaigns (1840s–1850s) -- Chapter 4. American Alliances and the World Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840 -- Chapter 5. Rebelling With Mazzini in the Struggle for Italy -- Chapter 6. Eliza and George Sand: Rebellion in Translation -- Part III Expanding Horizons (1850s–1880s) -- Chapter 7. Visions of America -- Chapter 8. Achieving Italian Unification -- Chapter 9. Redefining British Women’s Economic and Social Equality -- Chapter 10. Fighting for British Women’s Suffrage and Political Equality -- Part IV Last Waves of Alliance -- Chapter 11. Madame Venturi: “A Rebel to the Last” -- Chapter 12. Into the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 13. Conclusions.This group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in a London household with few boundaries between private life and public engagement, Eliza, Caroline, Matilda, and Emilie Ashurst built sophisticated transnational networks advancing anti-slavery, Italian unification, and women's rights across Britain, Europe, and America. Through strategic marriages, literary production, and connections with revolutionaries like Giuseppe Mazzini, the family nurtured others to campaign for change. Spanning three generations (1791-1933), this book illuminates the understudied role of kinship in nineteenth-century reform movements. The Ashurst Sisters demonstrates how middle-class Victorian women could shape international culture and political discourse through strategic networking and persistent activism. Despite their formal exclusion from power, they found new ways to influence society through translating innovative texts, fundraising for causes, and publishing calls for change. Allison Scardino Belzer is Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, USA, specializing in modern Italy and Britain. She published Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy with Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.History SeriesWomenHistoryLiteratureHistory and criticismCivilizationHistorySocial historyEuropeHistory1492-Great BritainHistoryWomen's History / History of GenderLiterary HistoryCultural HistorySocial HistoryHistory of Modern EuropeHistory of Britain and IrelandWomenHistory.LiteratureHistory and criticism.CivilizationHistory.Social history.EuropeHistory1492-.Great BritainHistory.Women's History / History of Gender.Literary History.Cultural History.Social History.History of Modern Europe.History of Britain and Ireland.305.4094109034Belzer Allison Scardino1853705MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9911035155903321The Ashurst Sisters4450334UNINA