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History is ?about men?. This book shows what a difference it makes to our understanding of history to put their masculinity under scrutiny. Ideal for students studying nineteenth-century social history, women's studies/men's studies, cultural studies, as well as those pursuing the history of the family and the history of the British Empire Written with exceptional lucidity Combines vivid historical re-creation with a clear explanation of the conceptual aspects of the subject Tosh is a well-known and respected historian - his book "The Pursuit of History" (Longman) has had lifetime sales of…mehr

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History is ?about men?. This book shows what a difference it makes to our understanding of history to put their masculinity under scrutiny. Ideal for students studying nineteenth-century social history, women's studies/men's studies, cultural studies, as well as those pursuing the history of the family and the history of the British Empire Written with exceptional lucidity Combines vivid historical re-creation with a clear explanation of the conceptual aspects of the subject Tosh is a well-known and respected historian - his book "The Pursuit of History" (Longman) has had lifetime sales of over 79,000 copies, and his edited collection "Historians on History "(Longman) has sold over 6,300 copies in its first edition.
In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginning, having written A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999), and co-edited Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britainsince 1800 (1991). Here he brings together nine key articles which he has written over the past ten years. These pieces document the aspirations of the first contributors to the field, and the development of an agenda of key historical issues which have become central to our conceptualising of gender in history. Later essays take up the issue of periodisation and the relationship of masculinity to other historical identities and structures, particularly in the context of the family. The last two essays, published for the first time, approach British imperial history in a fresh way. They argue that the empire needs to be seen as a specifically male enterprise, answering to masculine aspirations and insecurities. This leads to illuminating insights into the nature of colonial emigration and the popular investment in empire during the era the New Imperialism.
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John Tosh is Professor of History at Roehampton University. He has been at the forefront of British work on the history of masculinities for the last 15 years. He is author of A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999) and co-editor of Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britainsince 1800 (1991).