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JOHN STUART MILL: VICTORIAN FIREBRAND

by Richard Reeves

Published by Atlantic Books. 1st thus. 2008

Very good condition. A biography of John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. Richard Reeves covers Mill's political and social activism in detail. Mill identified problems with Victorian London, and he wanted to fix them. He was driven to make Victorian London a better place with less poverty, less overcrowding, and more prosperity. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w illustrations. 616 pages including index.

Light reading creases (vertical) to spine. Corners a little creased and lightly rubbed. Text block a little grubby. Some foxing to contents else clean.

ISBN: 9781843546443
Stock no. 1830992

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Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • 1. An Unusual and Remarkable Education (1806-20)
  • 2. A Man Among Men (1820-6)
  • 3. Strange Confusion (1826-30)
  • 4. This Imperfect Companionship (1830-6)
  • 5. Laid Hold of by Wolves: Conservative Influence3s
  • 6. Independence (1836-42)
  • 7. Eminence (1843-7)
  • 8. French Revolutionary (1848)
  • 9. A Dismal Science? (1848-52)
  • 10. A Seven-Year Blessing (1852-8)
  • 11. On Liberty (1859)
  • 12. To Hell I Will Go (1859-65)
  • 13. A Short, Bad Parliament (1865-8)
  • 14. The Father of Feminism
  • 15. Final Years (1868-73)
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgements

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