Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870: Essays in Honour of Jose Harris

ISBN-13: 9780198833048 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Lawrence Goldman

Opis

This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare state.

Recenzje

This book as a whole exemplifies the great dividends to be reaped from following Harris's example in taking seriously the effects of ideas and epistemological frameworks in shaping welfare and economic policy and makes an excellent tributeto her important and wide-ranging work.

O autorze

Lawrence Goldman was educated at Cambridge and at Yale where he was a Harkness Fellow. After a junior research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent 29 years as a university lecturer in Oxford and as a tutorial fellow of St. Peter's College, moving to the Directorship of the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London in 2014. From its publication in 2004 until 2014, he was the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Throughout his career he has taught both modern British and American History and published widely on the political and social history of both countries, including studies of the history of workers' education, Victorian social science, and the biography of the political thinker and historian, R. H. Tawney.