Cosmopolitan nationalism in the Victorian Empire : Ireland, India and the politics of Alfred Webb /
'All our absorbing interest in our own Irish affairs should not blind us to what is going on in other countries, should not lessen our sympathies towards men and women in other countries who are striving for free institutions as we are.' Thus wrote Alfred Webb (1834-1908), Irish Quaker, na...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York :
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2009
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Table of Contents:
- 'How rich my life has been, not in itself but in its associations': An Introduction to Alfred Webb
- 'Interested in people of all countries, especially of America': A Quaker Family in the Atlantic World
- 'The labours and responsibilities nearly killed me': Social Activism in Victorian Dublin
- 'Some curious characters floated on the surface': Webb's Entry into Nationalist Politics
- 'I am willing to take any dangerous part': Webb in the World of Parnell and Gladstone
- 'A union of hearts firmly based on love of Ireland': Cosmopolitan Friendship in the Imperial Metropolis
- 'I stand beside you as a comrade': Irish and Indian Political Collaboration
- 'Politics is a difficult and anxious game': An Assessment of Webb.
