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  • Disability in the Industrial Revolution

    Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780–1880

    An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in the Industrial Revolution sheds new light on the human cost of industrialisation by examining the ... Leer más

    $86.39 USD

  • Social Histories of Disability and Deformity

    Bodies, Images and Experiences

    Edición de David M. Turner, Kevin Stagg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the normal and the pathological.Through a variety of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

    Imagining Physical Impairment

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process, it asks a series of related questions: what ... Leer más

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  • Child Welfare

    England 1872-1989

    Child Welfare 1872-1989 is the first comprehensive book on the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children, covering a range of topics including infant life protection and welfare, sexuality, child guidance, medical treatment, war time evacuation, and child poverty. Equally importantly the ... Leer más

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  • In Search of a Better Life

    British and Irish Migration

    Edición de Graham Davis ...
    In Search of a Better Life challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. By no means were all migrants forced to leave their country by circumstances; many looked forward to a better life abroad. They were largely opportunists rather than victims, whether financed by the state or by ... Leer más

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  • Causing Death and Saving Lives

    The Moral Problems of Abortion, Infanticide, Suicide, Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, War and Other Life-or-death Choices

    The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices. ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of ... Leer más

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  • Disability and Society

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

    de David Garland ...
    First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today's sociology of punishment. It is now republished with a new Preface by the author.'Punishment and Welfare' explores the relation of punishment to politics, the historical formation and development of criminology, and the way in which penal reform grew out of the complex set of ... Leer más

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  • Developing Early Childhood Services: Past, Present And Future

    de Peter Baldock ...
    Assisting readers to understand how early years services have been transformed and to evaluate that process and to prepare for the future. ... Leer más

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  • Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

    de John Foster ...
    Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques for the dissection of urban social structures will serve as a model for subsequent research workers. This work examines the impact of ... Leer más

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