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'Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles' : Octavia Hill, social activism and the remaking of British society
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ISBN: 190964658X 1909646008 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Institute of Historical Research,

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This volume reassesses the life and work of Octavia Hill, housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. In her lifetime, if not a household name, Octavia Hill was widely regarded as an authority on a broad range of acknowledged social problems, particularly housing and poverty. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, subsequent attempts by family members to keep her memory alive, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to found, Hill fell from public favour in the twentieth century. The fourteen chapters in this book will help to provide a more nuanced portrait of Hill and her work in a broader context of social change, reflecting recent scholarship on nineteenth-century society in general, and on philanthropy and preservation, and women's role in them, in particular.


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Octavia Hill : a biography
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Year: 1943 Publisher: London : Constable & Co,

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In nature we trust : les paysages anglais à l'ère industrielle
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ISBN: 9782840505778 2840505770 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris : Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne,

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Summary: Comment sont nés les premiers mouvements de protection de la nature? Quelles ont été leurs motivations et leur idéologie? Quelles résistances et quels soutiens ont-ils rencontrés? Ce sont les questions auxquelles cet ouvrage tente de répondre, en étudiant le cas de l'Angleterre entre 1750 et 1914, espace symbolique du développement de l'industrialisation et de l'urbanisation, et l'un des pays pionniers en matière de préservation de la nature. Partant de la transformation du regard porté sur une nature devenue paysage et de l'analyse d'une idéologie "environnementale" en pleine élaboration, cette histoire est complétée par celle des actions menées par les différentes associations de protection de la nature, dont le National Trust. De la chanson au tableau de maître, des premières photographies aux plus grands poèmes de l'époque victorienne, en passant par les témoignages recueillis dans les rapports du Parlement, cet ouvrage éclaire ainsi d'un jour nouveau les origines de la relation si particulière du peuple anglais à ses paysages.


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Intercultural transfers and the making of the modern world, 1800 - 2000 : sources and context.
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ISBN: 9780230243545 0230243541 9780230243538 0230243533 Year: 2012 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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Culture diffusion --- Social change --- Cooperative societies --- Housing --- Eugenics --- Montessori method of education --- Passive resistance --- History --- History. --- Hill, Octavia, --- Montessori, Maria, --- Gandhi, --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Nonviolent noncooperation --- Resistance, Passive --- Satyagraha --- Direct action --- Nonviolence --- Kindergarten --- Teaching --- Affordable housing --- Homes --- Houses --- Housing needs --- Residences --- Slum clearance --- Urban housing --- City planning --- Dwellings --- Human settlements --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Co-operative societies --- Co-ops (Cooperative societies) --- Cooperative associations --- Cooperative distribution --- Cooperative stores --- Cooperatives --- Coops (Cooperative societies) --- Distribution, Cooperative --- Stores, Cooperative --- Corporations --- Societies --- Social aspects --- Aṇṇal Kānti, --- Gāndhi, Em. Ke., --- Gandhi, M. K. --- Gāndhī, Ma. Ka., --- Gāndhī, Mōhanadāsa Karamacanda, --- Gandhi, Mohandas, --- Gandhi, Mohandas K. --- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, --- Gāndhījī, --- Gandi, --- Gandi, M. K. --- Gāndī, Mahātamā, --- Gandi, Mahattŭma, --- Gandi, Mokhandas Karamchand, --- Gandī, Muhandās Kāramchānd, --- Ganji, Mahatoma, --- Ghāndi, --- Ghāndī, Mūhāndās Karamshānd, --- Gkanti, --- Kan-ti, --- Kandi, --- Kānti, --- Kānti, Mōkan̲tās Karamcant, --- Kāntiyaṭikaḷ, --- Mahātmā Gāndhījī, --- Mahātmājī, --- Makātmā Kānti, --- Mōhanadāsa Karamacanda Gāndhī, --- Mōkan̲tās Karamcant Kānti, --- גאנדי, מ.ק --- גאנדי, --- גנדהי, --- مهاتما گاندهى --- گاندهى، مهاتما --- گاندى، مهاتما --- گاندى، مهنداس کارمچاند --- ‏گاندھى،‏

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