The Chartist Prisoners, 1839–41

作者：Christopher Godfrey · 发表于：International Review of Social History · 年份：1979 · DOI：10.1017/s0020859000006039 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes、Historical Economic and Social Studies、Scottish History and National Identity

Historians of Chartism face a dilemma. On the one hand, they are obliged to interpret this national political movement on the national level, to attempt to explain why millions of British working men and women were engaged in organized political activity over several decades. But, on the other hand, many of the richest sources on Chartism are found on the local level. Older histories of the movement treated Chartism from a national perspective, but failed to take note of many of its complexities. More recently, a good deal of local research has rigorously tested our assumptions about Chartism, but the task of carefully analyzing the movement on the national level still remains.