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  • The Politics of Madness

    The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914

    by Joseph Melling, Bill Forsythe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national material. Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, it presents a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Housing, Social Policy and the State

    Edited by Joseph Melling ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Administration & Social Policy
    The topic of housing is central to urban history as well as to social policy. Historians have focussed either on local conditions or national developments, but until first publication of this book in 1980, there had been few systematic attempts to relate local amenities to general policy. The essays provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of housing, blending original local studies with ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Crucified Jesus Is No Stranger, The

    by Sebastian Moore ...
    An insightful, passionate, and honest exploration of the religious life, a life lived entirely through the filter of the Gospel. ... Read more

    $12.03 USD

  • Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

    Edited by Bill Forsythe, Joseph Melling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850

    Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom

    Edited by Pamela Dale, Joseph Melling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary sector.Questioning the notion that institutions ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Managing the Modern Workplace

    Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain

    by Alan Booth ...
    A recurring theme in the history of modern Britain in the twentieth-century has been the failure of its manufacturing industry and the record of disorder and conflict in the industrial workplace. This image was reinforced by the evidence of national strikes from the 1960s until 1984. This emphasis on decline and disorder in British manufacturing has distorted our understanding of workplace ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Disability and Society

    by Dr Patrick McDonnell ...
    Disability and Society: Ideological and Historical Dimensions explores the changing relationship between disability and society in Western culture from early modern times to the present, with a particular emphasis on Ireland. The author identifies the main ideologies and practices that have shaped the relationship between disability and society, describes how these emerged over time and discusses ... Read more

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  • Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1800-1945

    by Linda Mahood ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women's history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women's studies, history of education, sociology. ... Read more

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  • Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England

    by Louise A. Jackson ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.The focus is placed on the child and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice, thereby providing a unique and important evaluation of the treatment of children in the courtroom. Through ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

    by Carol Dyhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector’s reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Nursing Knowledge

    by Anne Marie Rafferty ...
    The Politics of Nursing Knowledge puts into context the historical factors which have shaped and sometimes limited the development of nurse education. Anne Marie Rafferty makes a critical reappraisal of Florence Nightingale's vision of nursing and looks at how training and policy-making have evolved from the origins of hospital reform in the 1860s to the start of the National Health Service in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England

    Diversity and Agency, 1750�1914

    by Katrina Honeyman ...
    The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD