Primary Sources

• Florence Nightengale's activist pamphlet on Rural Hygiene (1894)
• From 19th Century British Conservative Benjamin Disraeli, an acerbic questioning of Utilitarianism, noting that its mantra has no real meaning: Utilitarian Follies (1860)
• Excerpts from one of John Stuart Mill's work On Liberty (1859)which adds a call for protection of rights to hi s Utilitarianism
• The Chartists' petition expressing their disappointment that the Reform Act of 1832 didn't go far enough.  The People's Petition, 1838
• This is, in effect, two sides of a late 18th Century debate concerning job loss to modernization.   Workers attempt to appeal to their employers in the Leeds Woolen Workers Petition, 1786, to which the capitalists respond with pragmatic reality in a Letter from the Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791.  
• A pamphlet published by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon:  A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854, 1856)
• Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
  
• Excerpts from Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women  (1792)
  

Secondary Sources

• Tables comparing data on the industrialization (overall and in specific industries) in the 19th and early 20 centuries
• A very detailed description of the Battle of Trafalgar (told from a British Perspective, so it might be, you know, kinda biased).
  

Reference Shelf

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