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  • The Golden Age

    Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850–1870

    by Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Judith Rowbotham ...
    In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of industrial England. For the next twenty years Britain reigned supreme. From around 1870 Britain began to decline. Britain is now a second rate power with strong memories of its former supremacy. The above five sentences summarise a common view of the sequencing of Britain ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Behaving Badly

    Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels

    by Judith Rowbotham, Kim Stevenson ...
    Both the Victorian age and the late twentieth century are often characterised by contemporaries as times of apparent economic affluence and stability. They are often depicted as periods that shared a conviction that the stability of society, including its affluence, was threatened by the activities of social deviants. These essays aim to examine crime of a socially visible nature, in the context ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Public Indecency in England 1857-1960

    'A Serious and Growing Evil’

    by Kim Stevenson, Candida Harris, Judith Rowbotham, David Cox ...
    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    Throughout the nineteenth century and twentieth century, various attempts were made to define and control problematic behaviour in public by legal and legislative means through the use of a somewhat nebulous concept of ‘indecency’. Remarkably however, public indecency remains a much under-researched aspect of English legal, social and criminal justice history.Covering a period of just over a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Crime News in Modern Britain

    Press Reporting and Responsibility, 1820-2010

    by Judith Rowbotham, Kim Stevenson, Samantha Pegg ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Monarchies and the Great War

    Edited by Matthew Glencross, Judith Rowbotham ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume challenges the traditional view that the First World War represents a pivotal turning point in the long history of monarchy, suggesting the picture is significantly more complex. Using a comparative approach, it explores the diverse roles played by monarchs during the Great War, and how these met the expectations of the monarchic institution in different states at a time of such crisis ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Shame, Blame, and Culpability

    Crime and violence in the modern state

    Edited by Judith Rowbotham, Marianna Muravyeva, David Nash ...
    Series series Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
    This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia and Greece, not just on material from familiar locations in western Europe. Ranging from the early modern to the late twentieth century, the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Windsor Dynasty 1910 to the Present

    'Long to Reign Over Us'?

    Edited by Matthew Glencross, Judith Rowbotham, Michael D. Kandiah ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the recreation and subsequent development of the British Monarchy during the twentieth century. Contributors examine the phenomenon of modern monarchy through an exploration of the establishment and the continuing impact of the Windsor dynasty both within Britain and the wider world, to interrogate the reasons for its survival into the twenty-first century. The successes (and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    From Chadwick to Booth

    by David Englander ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914

    by Dr Drew D. Gray ...
    Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from the Restoration to World War 1. It charts how prosecution and punishment have changed from the early modern to the modern period and reflects on how the changing nature of English society has affected these processes. By combining extensive primary material alongside a ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Occasions of Sin

    Sex and Society in Modern Ireland

    by Diarmaid Ferriter ...
    Ferriter covers such subjects as abortion, pregnancy, celibacy, contraception, censorship, infanticide, homosexuality, prostitution, marriage, popular culture, social life and the various hidden Irelands associated with sexual abuse - all in the context of a conservative official morality backed by the Catholic Church and by legislation. The book energetically and originally engages with subjects ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Crime and Justice since 1750

    by Barry Godfrey, Paul Lawrence ...
    This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system, including the development of the police, the courts and the mechanisms of punishment (from the gallows to the prison). The role of the victim in the criminal justice ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • 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

    $57.99 USD