Social agencies and institutions
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Social agencies and institutions
(The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950 / edited by F.M.L. Thompson, v. 3)
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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  Iwate
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  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 445-475
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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