Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire: Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb

by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre

Book Overview

'All our absorbing interest in our own Irish affairs should not blind us to what is going on in other countries, should not lessen our sympathies towards men and women in other countries who are striving for free institutions as we are.' Thus wrote Alfred Webb (1834-1908), Irish Quaker, nationalist, Member of Parliament, suffragist, and President of the 1894 Indian National Congress. In the first full-length biography of Webb, Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230220851
• ISBN13: 9780230220850
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"