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  • Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800

    Legal Responses to Threatening the State

    by Peter Rushton, Dr Gwenda Morgan ...
    This book examines internal political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason and sedition. The threat of treason and rebellion pervaded the British Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries; Britain's control of its territories was continually threatened by rebellion and war, both at home and in North America. Even after American independence, Britain and its former ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Banishment in the Early Atlantic World

    Convicts, Rebels and Slaves

    by Peter Rushton, Dr Gwenda Morgan ...
    Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be simultaneously punished and, perhaps, contained and reformed. Under British rule, poor Irish, Scottish Jacobites, English criminals, Quakers, ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Austerity Policies

    Bad Ideas in Practice

    Edited by Peter Rushton, Catherine Donovan ...
    This book takes up the problems of social policy, state intervention and support in the hard times of austerity introduced by the Coalition government 2010-15, and continued under the Conservative government today. At a time when the economy is growing and pay levels finally rising, the necessity for more cuts in public expenditure is fiercely contested. The scope of state services, the levels of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800

    Comparisons and Contrasts

    by Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of the British and the French Empires as they strove to develop new societies in the Americas.Charting the volatile relationship between the British and French, this book examines the approaches that both empires took as they attempted to realise their ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Rogues, Thieves And the Rule of Law

    The Problem Of Law Enforcement In North-East England, 1718-1820

    by Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton ...
    Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law" is a large-scale study of crime, disorder and law enforcement in northern England in the early modern period. London was not the only city where female criminals were common and gangs were feared, nor was it the sole centre of industrial and political agitation. The north was an area of national significance which supplied the capital with its fuel and whose ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Unfinished Business

    Social Policy for Social Care Students in Ireland

    by Joe Moran ...
    With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such as poverty, homelessness, disability, immigrants, mental health and many other issues pertinent to ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Social policy

    by Spicker, Paul ...
    Social Policy: Themes and approaches is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, providing a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject while developing critical awareness of problems, ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Imperial Immigrants

    The Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815–1840

    by Michael E. Vance ...
    The impact of the British Empire on the history of the Upper Ottawa Valley is explored through the experiences of early emigration-assisted 19th-century Scottish immigrants.Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, in the Ottawa Valley. These government-assisted emigrations, which began immediately after the Napoleonic Wars, are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

    The Great Scottish Exodus

    by Margery Harper, Dr Marjory Harper ...
    'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of that 'Great Exodus'. In many ways it challenges ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada

    A Researcher's Guide

    by Janice Nickerson ...
    Series Book 5 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada provides genealogists and social historians with context and tools to understand the criminal justice system and locate sources on criminal activity and its consequences for the Upper Canada period (17911841) of Ontarios history.Illustrative examples further aid researchers in this era of the provinces past, which is notoriously difficult to investigate due to ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Policy for Social Work

    Placing Social Work in its Wider Context

    by Karen Clarke, Lorraine Green ...
    Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways profoundly affected by the changing global context.This insightful book examines how shifts in the ... Read more

    $25.00 USD