Author : Alastair J. Reid
Publisher : MacMillan Education, Limited
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
A clear guide to the debates surrounding British social history between 1850 and 1914. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Neville Kirk
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719042386
EU security governance assesses the effectiveness of the EU as a security actor. The book has two distinct features. Firstly, it is the first systematic study of the different economic, political and military instruments employed by the EU in the performance of four different security functions. The book demonstrates that the EU has emerged as an important security actor, not only in the non-traditional areas of security, but increasingly as an entity with force projection capabilities. Secondly, the book represents an important step towards redressing conceptual gaps in the study of security governance, particularly as it pertains to the European Union. The book links the challenges of governing Europe's security to the changing nature of the state, the evolutionary expansion of the security agenda, and the growing obsolescence of the traditional forms and concepts of security cooperation.
Author : Simon Szreter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521528689
This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science.
Author : William Cornish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509931260
Law and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of English law, political science, and social history.
Author : Hugh Mcleod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1984-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1349052132
"It might have been little more than an annotated bibliography. It is in fact an important independent study in its own right." The Expository Times
Author : Chris Wrigley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0470998814
This Companion brings together 32 new essays by leading historians to provide a reassessment of British history in the early twentieth century. The contributors present lucid introductions to the literature and debates on major aspects of the political, social and economic history of Britain between 1900 and 1939. Examines controversial issues over the social impact of the First World War, especially on women Provides substantial coverage of changes in Wales, Scotland and Ireland as well as in England Includes a substantial bibliography, which will be a valuable guide to secondary sources
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social classes
ISBN : 9780231096669
In this wholly original and brilliantly argued book, the author shows that Britons have indeed been preoccupied with class, but in ways that are invariably ignorant and confused.
Author : Chris Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1405143096
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essaysby expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political,social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the lateGeorgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English, in scope. Pays attention to the experiences of women as well as ofmen. Illustrated with maps and charts. Includes guides to further reading.
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231096676
Although politicians in Britain are now calling for a "classless society," can one conclude, as do many scholars, that class does not matter anymore? Cannadine uncovers the meanings of class for such disparate figures as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Margaret Thatcher and identifies the moments when opinion shifted, such as the aftermath of the French Revolution and the rise of the Labour Party in the early twentieth century.
Author : Geoff Eley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 9780472069644
In the struggle between "social" and "cultural" thinking, the refusal to choose sides can be a radical and vital move
