Manliness and masculinities in nineteenth-century Britain essays on gender family and empire

Synopsis

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 bookThe 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.