The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950

ISBN-13: 9780521438148 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 512 str.

F. M. Thompson

Opis

The final volume discusses the institutions that affected social conditions and influenced values and attitudes. Social policies were made for the most part by the comfortably off and those in power for the supposed good of the less fortunate. Contributors to this volume examine these initiatives with regard to, among others, the development of health care, philanthropy and the voluntary sector, the police and crime, professional associations and unions.

Recenzje

'These unique, comprehensive, collaborative volumes offer compelling evidence of the richness and vitality of British social history some three decades after its emergence in the later 1950s and early 1960s … certain to become standard reference works charting the course of scholarship at a particular point in time.' Richard A. Soloway, Social Science Quarterly

Spis treści

1. Government and society in England and Wales, 1750–1914 Pat Thane; 2. Society and the state in twentieth century Britain Jose Harris; 3. Education Gillian Sutherland; 4. Health and medicine Virginia Berridge; 5. Crime, authority and the police-man state V. A. C. Gatrell; 6. Religion James Obelkevich; 7. Philanthropy F. K. Prochaska; 8. Clubs, societies and associations R. J. Morris.