Structure and Change in Modern Britain
Author : Trevor Noble
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Trevor Noble
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Trevor Noble
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Social change
ISBN :
Author : E. A. Johns
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1483147541
The Social Structure of Modern Britain, Third Edition is a comprehensive account of the social structure of modern Britain. Aspects of social structure are examined from a historical and comparative perspective. The book includes statistical information, not only on the more obvious areas like births, deaths, and immigration, but also on such lesser known (but no less important) topics as leisure behavior, income and wealth, and trends in criminal and other deviant activities. Comprised of six chapters, this book begins with an introduction to the demographic features of British society, including population trends in the twentieth century, socio-economic aspects of population, and fertility and mortality trends, along with the effects of immigration on demography. Subsequent chapters focus on the family, social class, and education as well as leisure and pleasure. The final chapter is devoted to three major mechanisms of social control in British society: religion, political institutions, and law enforcement. In particular, it assesses the extent to which religious beliefs and political attitudes exert control over people's thoughts and behavior, together with the definition of crime, the causes of criminal behavior, and the aims of a penal system. This monograph will be a useful resource for sociologists and social scientists.
Author : Edward Allister Johns
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107038464
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.
Author : Edward Alistair Johns
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Study of the social structure of the UK - covers demographic aspects (incl. Population and fertility trends, mortality, immigration, etc.), the family structure, the social role and social status of women (incl. Married women and the woman worker), marriage and divorce, social stratification, leisure, education, social control (incl. In respect of crime), religious practices, etc. Bibliography pp. 195 and 196, references and statistical tables.
Author : David Feldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1139494414
This major collection of essays challenges many of our preconceptions about British political and social history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Inspired by the work of Gareth Stedman Jones, twelve leading scholars explore both the long-term structures - social, political and intellectual - of modern British history, and the forces that have transformed those structures at key moments. The result is a series of insightful, original essays presenting new research within a broad historical context. Subjects covered include the consequences of rapid demographic change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the forces shaping transnational networks, especially those between Britain and its empire; and the recurrent problem of how we connect cultural politics to social change. An introductory essay situates Stedman Jones's work within the broader historiographical trends of the past thirty years, drawing important conclusions about new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.
Author : E. A. Johns
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Eric Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317862368
In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. By the end of the nineteenth century, Britain was still ruled by wealthy landowners, but the world over which they presided had been utterly transformed. It was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain - yet that change was achieved without political revolution. Ranging across the developing empire, and dealing with such central institutions as the church, education, health, finance and rural and urban life, The Shaping of Modern Britain provides an unparallelled account of Britain's rise to superpower status. Particular attention is given to the Great Reform Act of 1832, and the implications of the 1867 Reform Act are assessed. The book discusses: - the growing role of the central state in domestic policy making - the emergence of the Labour party - the Great Depression - the acquisition of a vast territorial empire Comprehensive, informed and engagingly written, The Shaping of Modern Britain will be an invaluable introduction for students of this key period of British history.
Author : Keith Wrightson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300094121
Wrightson describes the basic institutions and relationships of economic life in Britain, tracing the processes of change, and examines how these changes affect men, women, and children of all ages. Illustrations.