States, People, and the History of Social Change – serie
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People's Health
Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao's China, 1949-1983
Av Xun Zhou
Inbunden, 2020
1621 kr
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In 1949, the Communist Party of China pledged that its approach to health care would differ markedly from that of the former Nationalist government and the 'imperialist' West. For the next thirty years under Mao's leadership, the People's Republic of China made improving the health of the entire …
People's Health
Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao's China, 1949-1983
Av Xun Zhou
Häftad, 2020
497 kr
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In 1949, the Communist Party of China pledged that its approach to health care would differ markedly from that of the former Nationalist government and the 'imperialist' West. For the next thirty years under Mao's leadership, the People's Republic of China made improving the health of the entire …
Young Subjects
Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World
Inbunden, 2021
1045 kr
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Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing …
Indentured Servitude
Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies
Av Anna Suranyi
Inbunden, 2021
1506 kr
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Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or “spirited away” or were sent forcibly by government agencies as …
Indentured Servitude
Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies
Av Anna Suranyi
Häftad, 2021
425 kr
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Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or “spirited away” or were sent forcibly by government agencies as …
Penal Servitude
Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853–1948
Av Helen Johnston, Barry Godfrey m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
454 kr
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Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment – short of death – in the criminal justice system, and they remained in place for nearly a century.Penal Servitude is the …
In Their Own Write
Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900
Av Steven King, Paul Carter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1671 kr
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Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from …
In Their Own Write
Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900
Av Steven King, Paul Carter m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
527 kr
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Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from …
Looking After Miss Alexander
Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England
Av Janet Weston
Inbunden, 2023
1506 kr
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In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs. Although Alexander and those living with her insisted that she was perfectly well, the official solicitor took control of her home and money, …
Looking After Miss Alexander
Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England
Av Janet Weston
Häftad, 2023
454 kr
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In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs. Although Alexander and those living with her insisted that she was perfectly well, the official solicitor took control of her home and money, …
Friendless or Forsaken?
Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935
Av Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1275 kr
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Between 1860 and 1935, about 100,000 impoverished children were emigrated from Britain to Canada to seek a new life in the “land of plenty.” Charities, religious workers, philanthropists, and state-run institutions such as workhouses and orphanages all sent children abroad, claiming that this was …
Friendless or Forsaken?
Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935
Av Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
454 kr
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Between 1860 and 1935, about 100,000 impoverished children were emigrated from Britain to Canada to seek a new life in the “land of plenty.” Charities, religious workers, philanthropists, and state-run institutions such as workhouses and orphanages all sent children abroad, claiming that this was …
Slow Train to Arcadia
A History of Railway Commuting into London
Av Duncan Gager
Inbunden, 2024
1275 kr
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Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the crowded urban centre while staying connected to its places of work. Commuting helped transform London’s urban landscape, as the …
Slow Train to Arcadia
A History of Railway Commuting into London
Av Duncan Gager
Häftad, 2024
324 kr
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Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the crowded urban centre while staying connected to its places of work. Commuting helped transform London’s urban landscape, as the …
Fraudulent Lives
Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present
Av Steven King
Inbunden, 2024
1300 kr
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The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official statistics suggest that relatively small amounts of money are lost to such …
Fraudulent Lives
Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present
Av Steven King
Häftad, 2024
396 kr
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The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official statistics suggest that relatively small amounts of money are lost to such …
Prisoners’ Bodies
Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985
Av Oisín Wall
Häftad, 2024
454 kr
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In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded – there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace. The Irish prisoners unionized, igniting a movement that helped transform the penal system over the next …
To Detain or to Punish
Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840
Av Kiran Mehta
Häftad, 2025
512 kr
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Imprisonment was rarely used as punishment in Britain before 1800. The criminal justice system was based on terror and deterrence, sentencing convicts to the gallows at home and transportation overseas, with prisons serving primarily as holding spaces for the accused until the case against them was …
Dangers of Youth
Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France
Häftad, 2025
555 kr
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French society at the turn of the twentieth century was deeply preoccupied with the conduct and management of its young people, especially those who had broken the law. Legislators and social reformers of the Third Republic grappled with the question of whether children who committed offences …
Peasants’ War
Russia’s Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy
Inbunden, 2025
1275 kr
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During the First World War, Russia relied on the mass mobilization of its peasant population. In the summer of 1914, approximately four million peasants answered the state’s call to arms, while the millions who remained at home donated labour and other resources to the cause. Within three short …
Workhouse Lives
Staffing Institutions Under the Old and New Poor Laws
Av Steven King, Steven King m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
430 kr
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Following the passage of the 1834 New Poor Law, parishes in England and Wales were organized into unions, each of which had at least one workhouse, a public institution where impoverished individuals and families were housed, fed, and put to work. Beyond bricks and regulations, the workhouse was …
Penal Servitude
Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853–1948
Av Helen Johnston, Barry Godfrey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1506 kr
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Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment – short of death – in the criminal justice system, and they remained in place for nearly a century.Penal Servitude is the …
