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The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950. Volume 3, Social agencies and institutions / edited by F. M. L. Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social institutions--Great Britain--History.
- Social institutions.
- Associations, institutions, etc--Great Britain--History.
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Social structure--Great Britain--History.
- Social structure.
- Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 492 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians, they have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that an outpouring of research and writing is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of topical monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three perspectives: those of regional communities, the working and living environment, and social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.
- Contents:
- Government and society in England and Wales, 1750-1914 / Pat Thane
- Society and the state in twentieth-century Britain / José Harris
- Education / Gillian Sutherland
- Health and medicine / Virginia Berridge
- Crime, authority and the policeman-state / V.A.C. Gatrell
- Religion / James Obelkevich
- Philanthropy / F.K. Prochaska
- Clubs, societies and associations / R.J. Morris.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139055604 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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