Prof John Tosh

Publications

[co-editor with Michael Roper] Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain since 1800, Routledge, 1991

A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England, Yale University Press, 1999; paperback with new Preface, 2007

The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History, 4th edition, Longman, 2006

co-editor with K. Hagemann & S. Dudink, Masculinities in Politics and War , Manchester UP, 2004

Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire, Longman, 2005

Why History Matters , Palgrave 2008, advocates the social relevance of history in a broadly based argument addressed to a more general audience.

Work in progress

Work is continuing on masculinity, emigration and imperialism in 19th century Britain

Other professional activities

Member of steering committee, History at the Universities Defence Group (1997-2005); member of the History Subject Benchmarking Group (1998-99); Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society (1999-2002).

Teaching interests

Historiography and historical method; late 19th and early 20th century British social history; the cultural constructions of empire in modern Britain; 'history from below' as a cultural and political practice.

Publications

(2005) Manliness an d Masculinities in N ineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire, authored book, 219.

Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann (2004) Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, Manchester University Press, 1-325.

(2003) Masculinity: Men defining Men, Part 2, 1800-1918, Microfilm collection, Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 23 reels.

(2002) Gentlemanly politeness and manly simplicity in Victorian England, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 12, 455-72.

(2002) The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History, 3rd edn with new introduction. Harlow: Longman.

(2001) Current issues in the history of masculinity, La costruzione dell’identità maschile nell’età moderna, ed. A. Arru (Biblink), 63-78.

(2001) Men in the domestic sphere: a neglected history, La costruzione dell’identità maschile nell’età moderna, ed. A. Arru (Biblink), 47-61.

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