HIST-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 53: Corn Laws, Thirteen Colonies, Autarky
14 Oct 2020
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1867 reform act: enfranchises (gives the vote to) working men. A story of worker rights and widening educational attainment and economic prosperity. Also a story about race and empire, especially in the wake of the indian mutiny (1857) and the. The act redefines citizenship in terms of nation, ethnicity, and race. Membership in the political nation was defined by socioeconomic standing (only the upper and middle classes could vote) previously. After 1867, it is defined by cultural and racial affinity: the 1957 indian mutiny helped reconfigure national citizenship/belonging in britain according to racial lines, governor eyre affair: governor of jamaica, edward john eyre brutally represses the. Troops kill hundreds, burn down thousands of houses. Progressive circles, including john stuart mill and charles darwin, in britain want him recalled and prosecuted. Others, thomas carlyle, charles dickens, alfred lord tennyson, novelists and poets that porter says were not involved in imperial affairs, rally around eyre and establish the "governor eyre.
