Retrieved riches : social investigation in Britain, 1840-1914

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Retrieved riches : social investigation in Britain, 1840-1914

edited by David Englander and Rosemary O'Day

Scolar Press , Ashgate Pub. Co., [1995]

  • : hbk

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Bibliography: p. [381]-401

Includes index

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This collection of essays explores the process of social investigation in Victorian Britain. The contributors also assess the possibilities of the data collected for further historical inquiry. Women, Jews, maps, schools, churches and gambling are represented. The collection is set reading for the Open University Honours History course.

目次

  • Part 1: Social and economic thought - 1. social facts
  • social theory and social change: the ideas of Booth in relation to those of Beatrice Webb, Octavia Hill and Helen Bosanquet, Jane Lewis
  • 2. between civic virtue and social Darwinism: the concept of the residuum, Jose Harris
  • 3. Charles Booth as an under-consumptionist economist, Alon Kadish
  • Part 2: methods of social inquiry - 4. comparisons and contrasts: Henry Mayhew and Charles Booth as social investigators, David Englander
  • 5. interviews and investigations: Charles Booth and the making of the Religious Influences Survey, Rosemary O'Day
  • 6. women and social investigation: Clara Collet and Beatrice Potter, Rosemary O'Day
  • 7. paradigms of poverty: a rehabilitation of B.S. Rowntree, J.H. Veit-Wilson
  • Part 3: retrieved riches: using the Booth archive - 8. Charles Booth and the social geography of education in late 19th-century London, William Marsden
  • 9. working-class religion in late Victorian London: Booth's "Religious Influences" revisited, Hugh McLeod
  • 10. Booth's Jews: the presentation of Jews and Judaism in "Life and labour of the people in London", David Englander
  • 11. representations of metropolis: descriptions of the social environment in "Life and labour", David Reeder
  • 12. women in Victorian religion, Rosemary O'Day
  • 13. gambling, "the fancy", and Booth's role and reputation as a social investigator, Mark Clapson.

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