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  • af Ian D. Whyte
    1.131,95 kr.

    Migration is the most imprecise and difficult of all aspects of pre-industrial population to measure. This book reviews a wide range of aspects of population migration, and their impacts on British society, from Tudor times to the main phase of the Industrial Revolution.

  • af John Belchem & Belchem
    415,95 kr.

  • af W B Stephens
    431,95 kr.

    This concise study covers the development of education throughout Great Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Great War: a period in which urbanization, industrialization and population growth posed huge social and political problems, and education became one of the fiercest areas of conflict in society.

  • af Helen Jewell
    444,95 - 1.376,95 kr.

    Covering the period c.1530-c.1760, this book analyses the aims, facilities and achievements across all levels of education in England, institutional and informal, acknowledging in context the education situation in the rest of the British Isles, western Europe and North America.

  • af Peter Kirby
    532,95 kr.

    This survey of child labour argues that during the 18th and 19th centuries, child labour provided a major contribution both to economic growth and to the incomes of working class households. The book also discusses the issues involved in the study of children's employment.

  • af Christine Peters
    431,95 - 1.253,95 kr.

    Explores changes in clanship and inheritance, the employment of single women, the punishment of pregnant brides and scolds, and the introduction of Protestantism, all of which contributed to the diversity of women's lives in Britain during the early modern period.

  • af George Robb
    364,95 kr.

    This essential survey of British society and culture during World War I focuses on the lives of ordinary Britons: how they were affected by the war, how they attempted to understand the conflict, and how they have dealt with its legacies. This timely new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of the latest scholarship.

  • af Andrew Brown
    548,95 - 1.498,95 kr.

    In an age in which social mobility and upheaval, particularly in the wake of the Black Death, had profound effects on religious attitudes and practices, Brown demonstrates that our understanding of late medieval religion should be firmly placed within this context of social change.

  • af Michael Mullett
    444,95 kr.

    In this new study, Michael Mullett examines the social, political and religious development of Catholic communities in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the Reformation to the arrival of toleration in the nineteenth century.

  • af Anthony Brundage
    533,95 - 1.511,95 kr.

    The English Poor Laws examines the nature and operation of the English poor law system from the early eighteenth century to its termination in 1930.

  • af Tim Hitchcock
    444,95 kr.

    This fascinating and wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings together the disparate literatures on demography, love and marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the regulation of sexuality.

  • af Joyce Ellis
    444,95 kr.

    This text explores the changing functions, character and experiences of British towns and their inhabitants in a period of vigorous activity in almost every sphere of urban life. This reflects the research into the urban world in the "long 18th century" that has appeared in the last few decades.

  • af Sue Bruley
    422,95 kr.

    It does not seek to provide a triumphalist history of 'great women', but instead offers an account of women's shifting identity within different social, economic and political contexts, divided by class, sexuality, ethnic background and other factors.

  • af David Taylor
    431,95 - 1.374,95 kr.

    One of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of historical research in recent years has been the study of crime and the criminal.

  • af Melanie Tebbutt
    497,95 - 1.436,95 kr.

    This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Adopting a chronological approach to a number of key themes and debates, Melanie Tebbutt compares and contrasts representations and lived experiences while emphasising diversity and the need to recognise regional differences.

  • - The Old Poor Law Tradition
    af Paul A. Fideler
    444,95 kr.

    Utilizing work in economic, social, demographic, political, medical and welfare history and attending to developments in religion, ethics, and political thought, the author highlights the assumptions, perceptions and repertoire of relief initiatives that sustained the Elizabethan social welfare tradition until its demise.

  • - In Nineteenth-Century England
    af A. Kidd
    535,95 kr.

    Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. The Poor Law after 1834 offered little more than a 'safety net' for the poorest, and much welfare was organised through charitable societies, self-help institutions and mutual-aid networks.

  • af Peter Fleming
    444,95 kr.

    The family and household together provided the basic unit of social organization in the Middle Ages, and this period saw the emergence of many aspects of modern life, including the marriage service. This text discusses the history of family life in England from c. 1066 to c. 1530.

  • af Arthur McIvor
    544,95 kr.

    This book draws upon the existing body of literature and incorporates substantial new research to provide an interpretative overview of the social history of work in Britain from the late-Victorian period to 1950.

  • af John Belchem
    536,95 - 1.376,95 kr.

    A wide-ranging overview of radicalism throughout the "long" 19th century, from the days of "Wilkes and Liberty" to the aftermath of World War I, this study offers a critical introduction to new linguistic and cultural approaches. It studies both working-class and middle-class radicalism.

  • - Holding their Peace
    af Christopher W. Marsh
    517,95 - 1.253,95 kr.

    The author explores the involvement of ordinary people within, alongside and beyond the church, covering topics such as liturgical practice, church office, relations with the clergy, festivity, religious fellowships, cheap print, 'magical' religion and dissent.

  • af Richard Rex
    343,95 kr.

    A brief guide to the history of England's only native medieval heretical movement. From its 14th-century origins in the theology of an Oxford professor, John Wyclif, Richard Rex examines the spread of Lollardy across much of England until its eventual dissolution in the 16th century.

  • af Sybil Jack
    536,95 kr.

    Were towns the precipitating element for change in the human way of life? By examining in turn various aspects of urban history in the period 1500-1700 this book attempts to examine recent historical ideas about towns in Britain. Was the growing size of some towns fuelled by new or considerably altered functions?

  • af Ian Whyte
    444,95 kr.

    During the last twenty years there has been an explosion of new research into the development of Scotland from a small, backward country on the periphery of Europe to one poised to undergo industrialisation in step with England.

  • af Professor John Spurr
    431,95 - 1.253,95 kr.

    The Puritans of seventeenth century England have been blamed for everything from the English civil war to the rise of capitalism. Readers will find this book an indispensable guide, not only to the religious history of seventeenth century England, but also to its political and social history.

  • af Hugh McLeod
    444,95 kr.

    It goes on to analyse, making extensive use of oral history, the pervasive and many-sided influence of Christianity before considering the limits of this influence. The forms of Christianity most typical of this time are then considered, with special emphasis on Evangelism at home and abroad and differences between male and female religiosity.

  • af Carl J. Griffin
    465,95 kr.

    Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Locating protest in the wider contexts of work, poverty and landscape change, this new text offers the first critical overview of this growing area of study.

  • af Andy Wood
    444,95 - 1.635,95 kr.

    Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England reassesses the relationship between politics, social change and popular culture in the period c.

  • af Kathryn Gleadle
    431,95 - 1.489,95 kr.

    This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.

  • af Heather Swanson
    437,95 kr.

    Medieval British Towns sets out to explain the reasons for the explosion of town foundation throughout the British Isles from the twelfth century onwards and charts the subsequent development of towns through to the early sixteenth century.

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