John Tosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Tosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Tosh |
| SIGNATURE | TOSH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Historical scholarship and public memory in Britain
In its current guise as reinforcement for current cultural identities, public history allows little scope for the work of professional historians. This means that the light that historical scholarship can cast on topical issues of great moment is obscured. Yet logically there is no reason why the findings of such scholarship should not take their place in public memory. This chapter contends that the social utility of history is lost sight of if …
From the ‘cape of despair’ to the Cape of Good Hope
This article draws on an unusually rich archive to explore the motives and mentality of poor English emigrants in the early nineteenth century. In 1819, the Colonial Department advertised a subsidized emigration scheme to South Africa; 2000 people wrote letters of application preserved in the National Archives. In studying the emigrant poor, historians have been primarily dependent on numerical data derived from passenger lists. The letters of ap…
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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…
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Weeping Britannia
In 2013, shortly before this book appeared, a poetry anthology was published with the title Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, edited by Anthony and Ben Holden. It is poignant evidence of the ways in w
The history manifesto
Home and Away
Public History, Civic Engagement and the Historical Profession in Britain
My purpose is to test the proposition that academic historians are central – rather than peripheral – to the practice of public history. Public history generally refers to work that is pursued outside the academy, by the combined efforts of historians and lay people, often pursuing a heritage agenda with a strictly local remit. The resulting enlargement in the scope of historical enquiry is greatly to be welcomed, but it should not be treated as …
Children on ‘free’ emigrant ships
Child migration within the British Empire is generally taken to refer to destitute youngsters abandoned or abused by their parents and shipped overseas as exploited labour. Yet the majority of children who left Britain for the colonies went with their parents as ‘free’ emigrants. During the first half of the nineteenth century family groups of this kind were the officially preferred form of emigration. This was particularly true of the assisted e…
The Britannic Vision
The Britannic Vision: Historians and the Making of the British Commonwealth of Nations, 1907–48." Rethinking History, 16(3), pp. 462–463
Presenting history
Presenting history: past and present, by Peter J. Beck, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 368 pp., ISBN 9780230242074 Since its appearance two decades ago public history has been more often in
Writing For Reading
How to Write History That People Want to Read , by Ann Curthoys and Ann McGrath (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2009, 263pp, $34.95pb). Publisher’s website: www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/9781742230863.htm
From Jack Tar to Union Jack
Empire Families
Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India. By ELIZABETH BUETTNER (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2004; pp. xiv + 310. £30). POSTCOLONIAL scholarship treats empire as an integrated system in which the experience of imperial power and the imagination of racial difference profoundly conditioned the culture of the metropole as well as the subaltern societies overseas. Hybridity and syncretism reflected an imperial world in which boundaries were porous, …
Masculinities in an Industrializing Society
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Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Book synopsis: "Manliness and Masculinities "presents an innovative series of studies in the cultural and social history of nineteenth-century Britain. The book documents the rapid emergence of a new and increasingly important field, and takes forward the definition of this new field. John Tosh addresses the big issues of theory and periodisation, exploring the relationship between masculinity and patriarchy, and between men's public role and the…
The pursuit of history
Why do we study history? How do we construct our knowledge of the past? How objective can it be? Addressing these key questions, this study offers a short and clear introduction to the methods and nature of historical research.
Gentlemanly Politeness and Manly Simplicity in Victorian England
Between the late eighteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century the notion of the `polite gentleman' lost its political purchase. `Manliness' became the identifying code of both the business class and the `respectable' working class. The virtues of rugged individualism and personal integrity were emphasised at the expense of sociability and ease of manner. In the political sphere debates about who should be included in the franchise were perme…
English Politeness
THIS was the first time a Society conference had been hosted by the Huntington. The invitation was issued by Robert Ritchie, Research Director of the Huntington, and the event was organised jointly by Anthony Fletcher and John Tosh. Two days of discussion devoted to the history of English politeness was always going to seem somewhat out of place in the environment of southern California. In the event the choice of theme acquired unanticipated lay…
A Man's Place. Masculinity and the Middle Class Home in Victorian England
Methodist Domesticity and Middle-Class Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century England
The history of the family, at least for the nineteenth century, has reached a certain maturity. Though not yet incorporated into mainstream history – that would be too much to expect – it now boasts a considerable specialist literature and some useful general surveys. Undoubtedly the driving force has been the aspiration of women’s history to reconstruct the lives of women in the past. Now that the personal records of women are being studied with…
Authority and Nurture in Middle‐Class Fatherhood
From Keighley to St-Denis
Journal Article From Keighley to St-Denis: Separation and Intimacy in Victorian Bourgeois Marriage Get access John Tosh John Tosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 40, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1995, Pages 193–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/40.1.193 Published: 01 October 1995
What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-century Britain
What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-century Britain Get access John Tosh John Tosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1994, Pages 179–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/38.1.179 Published: 01 October 1994
Manful Assertions
Manful Assertions
Masculinities in an Industrializing Society
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Lango Agriculture during the early Colonial Period
This article seeks to explain the adoption of cotton-growing by the Langi of Uganda in the early twentieth century, on the assumption that considerations of ‘indigenous economics’ (notably labour constraints and the attraction of competing crops) were at least as important as the more usually stressed factors of administrative pressure, price incentives and petty trading by immigrant minorities. On the eve of the colonial period the Langi were al…
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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…
What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-century Britain
What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-century Britain Get access John Tosh John Tosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1994, Pages 179–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/38.1.179 Published: 01 October 1994
The Cash-Crop Revolution in Tropical Africa
Journal Article THE CASH-CROP REVOLUTION IN TROPICAL AFRICA: AN AGRICULTURAL REAPPRAISAL1 Get access JOHN TOSH JOHN TOSH Dr John Tosh is presently lecturer in history at the Polytechnic of North London and previously was a research fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 314, January 1980, Pages 79–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a0…
Weeping Britannia
In 2013, shortly before this book appeared, a poetry anthology was published with the title Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, edited by Anthony and Ben Holden. It is poignant evidence of the ways in w
Colonial chiefs in a stateless society
From the point of view of both practical administration and Indirect Rule theory, non-centralized peoples posed acute problems for British administrators in Africa. The Lango people of Uganda were an especially difficult case, since their social organization was highly fragmented and lacked even the cohesiveness of a segmentary lineage system. The first government chiefs, appointed from 1912 onwards, represented a measure of continuity with the p…
From Jack Tar to Union Jack
The economy of the Southern Sudan under the British, 1898–1955
Public History, Civic Engagement and the Historical Profession in Britain
My purpose is to test the proposition that academic historians are central – rather than peripheral – to the practice of public history. Public history generally refers to work that is pursued outside the academy, by the combined efforts of historians and lay people, often pursuing a heritage agenda with a strictly local remit. The resulting enlargement in the scope of historical enquiry is greatly to be welcomed, but it should not be treated as …
Authority and Nurture in Middle‐Class Fatherhood
From Keighley to St-Denis
Journal Article From Keighley to St-Denis: Separation and Intimacy in Victorian Bourgeois Marriage Get access John Tosh John Tosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 40, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1995, Pages 193–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/40.1.193 Published: 01 October 1995
Clan Leaders and Colonial Chiefs in Lango
Party and Locality in Northern Uganda, 1945–1962
Journal Article Party and Locality in Northern Uganda, 1945–1962 Get access Party and Locality in Northern Uganda, 1945–1962, by Cherry Gertzel. Commonwealth Papers No. 16, Athlone Press, 1974. xii+100pp. 1 map, tables, index. Paperback $1.25. JOHN TOSH JOHN TOSH Polytechnic of North London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 295, April 1975, Page 232, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Gentlemanly Politeness and Manly Simplicity in Victorian England
Between the late eighteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century the notion of the `polite gentleman' lost its political purchase. `Manliness' became the identifying code of both the business class and the `respectable' working class. The virtues of rugged individualism and personal integrity were emphasised at the expense of sociability and ease of manner. In the political sphere debates about who should be included in the franchise were perme…
Methodist Domesticity and Middle-Class Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century England
The history of the family, at least for the nineteenth century, has reached a certain maturity. Though not yet incorporated into mainstream history – that would be too much to expect – it now boasts a considerable specialist literature and some useful general surveys. Undoubtedly the driving force has been the aspiration of women’s history to reconstruct the lives of women in the past. Now that the personal records of women are being studied with…
Home and Away
From the ‘cape of despair’ to the Cape of Good Hope
This article draws on an unusually rich archive to explore the motives and mentality of poor English emigrants in the early nineteenth century. In 1819, the Colonial Department advertised a subsidized emigration scheme to South Africa; 2000 people wrote letters of application preserved in the National Archives. In studying the emigrant poor, historians have been primarily dependent on numerical data derived from passenger lists. The letters of ap…
Imperial Frontier
Colonial chiefs in a stateless society
From the point of view of both practical administration and Indirect Rule theory, non-centralized peoples posed acute problems for British administrators in Africa. The Lango people of Uganda were an especially difficult case, since their social organization was highly fragmented and lacked even the cohesiveness of a segmentary lineage system. The first government chiefs, appointed from 1912 onwards, represented a measure of continuity with the p…
Small-Scale Resistance in Uganda
John Tosh conducted his research in Uganda while a Research Student of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. He is now lecturing in London. This article attempts to shed light on the reception of colonial rule in stateless societies through the detailed reconstruction of a single armed clash in Lango. The Adwari disturbances of 1919 were not a major upheaval, but merely one of many small-scale ‘incidents’ which attended the extension of coloni…
Elders, Shades and Women—ceremonial change in Lango, Uganda
Journal Article Elders, Shades and Women—ceremonial change in Lango, Uganda Get access Elders, Shades and Women—ceremonial change in Lango, Uganda, by Richard T. Curley. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1973. x+223pp. $8; £4. JOHN TOSH JOHN TOSH Polytechnic of North London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 294, January 1975, Pages 113–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/ox…
Party and Locality in Northern Uganda, 1945–1962
Journal Article Party and Locality in Northern Uganda, 1945–1962 Get access Party and Locality in Northern Uganda, 1945–1962, by Cherry Gertzel. Commonwealth Papers No. 16, Athlone Press, 1974. xii+100pp. 1 map, tables, index. Paperback $1.25. JOHN TOSH JOHN TOSH Polytechnic of North London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 295, April 1975, Page 232, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Lango Agriculture during the early Colonial Period
This article seeks to explain the adoption of cotton-growing by the Langi of Uganda in the early twentieth century, on the assumption that considerations of ‘indigenous economics’ (notably labour constraints and the attraction of competing crops) were at least as important as the more usually stressed factors of administrative pressure, price incentives and petty trading by immigrant minorities. On the eve of the colonial period the Langi were al…
Reply to Godfrey Uzoigwe
The Cash-Crop Revolution in Tropical Africa
Journal Article THE CASH-CROP REVOLUTION IN TROPICAL AFRICA: AN AGRICULTURAL REAPPRAISAL1 Get access JOHN TOSH JOHN TOSH Dr John Tosh is presently lecturer in history at the Polytechnic of North London and previously was a research fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 314, January 1980, Pages 79–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a0…
Black Evangelists
Clan Leaders and Colonial Chiefs in Lango
The economy of the Southern Sudan under the British, 1898–1955
James Augustus Grant in Africa, 1860–63. Edinburgh
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Manful Assertions
What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-century Britain
What Should Historians do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-century Britain Get access John Tosh John Tosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1994, Pages 179–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/38.1.179 Published: 01 October 1994
From Keighley to St-Denis
Journal Article From Keighley to St-Denis: Separation and Intimacy in Victorian Bourgeois Marriage Get access John Tosh John Tosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 40, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1995, Pages 193–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/40.1.193 Published: 01 October 1995
Authority and Nurture in Middle‐Class Fatherhood
Methodist Domesticity and Middle-Class Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century England
The history of the family, at least for the nineteenth century, has reached a certain maturity. Though not yet incorporated into mainstream history – that would be too much to expect – it now boasts a considerable specialist literature and some useful general surveys. Undoubtedly the driving force has been the aspiration of women’s history to reconstruct the lives of women in the past. Now that the personal records of women are being studied with…
The pursuit of history
Why do we study history? How do we construct our knowledge of the past? How objective can it be? Addressing these key questions, this study offers a short and clear introduction to the methods and nature of historical research.
Gentlemanly Politeness and Manly Simplicity in Victorian England
Between the late eighteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century the notion of the `polite gentleman' lost its political purchase. `Manliness' became the identifying code of both the business class and the `respectable' working class. The virtues of rugged individualism and personal integrity were emphasised at the expense of sociability and ease of manner. In the political sphere debates about who should be included in the franchise were perme…
English Politeness
THIS was the first time a Society conference had been hosted by the Huntington. The invitation was issued by Robert Ritchie, Research Director of the Huntington, and the event was organised jointly by Anthony Fletcher and John Tosh. Two days of discussion devoted to the history of English politeness was always going to seem somewhat out of place in the environment of southern California. In the event the choice of theme acquired unanticipated lay…
A Man's Place. Masculinity and the Middle Class Home in Victorian England
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Book synopsis: "Manliness and Masculinities "presents an innovative series of studies in the cultural and social history of nineteenth-century Britain. The book documents the rapid emergence of a new and increasingly important field, and takes forward the definition of this new field. John Tosh addresses the big issues of theory and periodisation, exploring the relationship between masculinity and patriarchy, and between men's public role and the…
Empire Families
Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India. By ELIZABETH BUETTNER (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2004; pp. xiv + 310. £30). POSTCOLONIAL scholarship treats empire as an integrated system in which the experience of imperial power and the imagination of racial difference profoundly conditioned the culture of the metropole as well as the subaltern societies overseas. Hybridity and syncretism reflected an imperial world in which boundaries were porous, …
Masculinities in an Industrializing Society
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Jack Tar to Union Jack
History (27 works) · Political science (25 works) · History (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Law (17 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Media studies (8 works)