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17 produkter
The Crisis of the Meritocracy
Britain's Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War
Inbunden, 2020
369 kr
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Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to university. How did we get here from there? The Crisis of the Meritocracy answers this question not by …
Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain
E-bok, 2006
2014 kr
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Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of ''laissez-faire'', the place and the time when people were most ''free'' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book explores the truth of that assumption and what it might mean. It considers what the …
Crisis of the Meritocracy
Britain's Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War
E-bok, 2020
265 kr
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Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to university. How did we get here from there? The Crisis of the Meritocracy answers this question not by …
Crisis of the Meritocracy
Britain's Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War
E-bok, 2020
265 kr
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Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to university. How did we get here from there? The Crisis of the Meritocracy answers this question not by …
From Plunder to Preservation
Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940
Av Astrid Swenson, Peter Mandler
Inbunden, 2013
1249 kr
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What was the effect of the British Empire on the cultures and civilisations of the peoples over whom it ruled? This book takes a novel approach to this important and controversial subject by considering the impact of empire on the idea of 'heritage'. It reveals a dazzling variety of attitudes on …
Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform
Whigs and Liberals 1830-1852
Inbunden, 1990
3457 kr
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This book challenges the view that there was a smooth and inevitable progression towards liberalism in early nineteenth-century England. It examines the argument used by the high Whigs that the landed aristocracy still had a positive contribution to make to the welfare of the people. This argument …
Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain
Inbunden, 2006
3306 kr
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Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire', the place and the time when people were most 'free' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book explores the truth of that assumption and what it might mean. It considers what the …
Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
Häftad, 1999
553 kr
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How much do the English really care about their stately homes? In this pathbreaking and wide-ranging account of the changing fortunes and status of the stately homes of England over the past two centuries, Peter Mandler melds social, cultural, artistic, and political perspectives and reveals much …
Return from the Natives
How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War
Inbunden, 2013
440 kr
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Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War. This fascinating book …
English National Character
The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair
Häftad, 2006
601 kr
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What kind of people are 'the English' - what are the characteristic traits and behaviour that distinguish them from other people? This highly original and wide-ranging book traces the surprisingly varied history of ideas amongst the English about their own 'national character' over the past two …
After the Victorians
Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain
Av Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen
Inbunden, 1994
2658 kr
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Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and `improvement' to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. …
Uses of Charity
The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis
Inbunden, 1990
1110 kr
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Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth-century city, emphasizing the position of women and children and the importance of charity and …
After the Victorians
Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain
Av Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen
Häftad, 2014
793 kr
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Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and `improvement' to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. …
Uses of Charity
The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis
E-bok, 2016
1308 kr
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Who were the poor of the world''s first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth-century city, emphasizing the position of women and children and the importance of charity and …
Modern British City 1945-2000
Av Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
833 kr
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Bringing together architectural, urban and social historians, this book charts the extraordinary changes that took place in British cities between the end of the Second World War and the early 21st century. This ambitious volume captures something of the diversity of the modern British city through …
Great Philanthropists
Wealth and Charity in the Modern World, 1815-1945
Av Peter Mandler, David Cesarani
Inbunden, 2017
802 kr
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What is a philanthropist? Why do they do what they do? What impact do they have? What makes them tick? What in their personal biographies, their communities, their backgrounds, and their moment in time drove them to devote so much time to giving so much money away? Great Philanthropists provides an …
