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  • Environmental Ethics

    An Introduction with Readings

    by John Benson ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Human Situation
    Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy, John Benson introduces the fundamentals of environmental ethics by asking whether a concern with human well-being is an adequate basis for environmental ethics. He encourages the reader to explore this question, considering techniques used to value the environment and critically examining 'light green' to 'deep green' environmentalism. Each chapter is ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • White-Collar Crime in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain

    by John Benson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    This book throws new light on white-collar crime, criminals and criminality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. It does so by considering the life of one man, Jesse Varley (1869–1929), who embezzled more than £80,000 from Wolverhampton Corporation, and for a decade and more enjoyed an ostentatiously extravagant lifestyle. He was discovered, and despite serving a period of penal ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Prime Time

    A History of the Middle Aged in Twentieth-Century Britain

    by John Benson ...
    Numerous studies consider the history of childhood, adolescence and old age, yet the middle aged, consistently the most productive and powerful of age groups have been consistently ignored. In this pioneering study John Benson considers how perceptions and experience of middle age have changed, and how its power-base has diminished, affected by the steady ageing of the population the increasing ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain

    by John Benson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of middle-class respectability in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It focuses upon the life of London solicitor Hamilton Pawley (1860–1936), who was barred from working by the Law Society, twice declared bankrupt, and in 1919 was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment with ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Gerald Howard-Smith and the ‘Lost Generation’ of Late Victorian and Edwardian England

    by John Benson ...
    Gerald Howard-Smith’s life is intriguing both in its own right and as a vehicle for exploring the world in which he lived. Tall, boisterous and sometimes rather irascible, he was one of the so-called ‘Lost Generation’ whose lives were cut short by the First World War. Brought up in London, and educated at Eton and Cambridge, he excelled both at cricket and athletics. After qualifying as a ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Coal in Victorian Britain, Part I, Volume 3

    by John Benson, Quentin Outram ...
    Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Coal in Victorian Britain, Part I, Volume 1

    by John Benson, Quentin Outram ...
    Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Coal in Victorian Britain, Part I, Volume 2

    by John Benson, Quentin Outram ...
    Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Coal in Victorian Britain, Part II, Volume 5

    by John Benson, James Jaffe, Keith Gildart ...
    Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Coal in Victorian Britain, Part II, Volume 4

    by John Benson, James Jaffe, Keith Gildart ...
    Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry. ... Read more

    $255.00 USD

  • Coal in Victorian Britain, Part II, Volume 6

    by John Benson, James Jaffe, Keith Gildart ...
    Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Changing Labour Policies and Organization of Work in China

    Impact on Firms and Workers

    by Ying Zhu, Michael Webber, John Benson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    The transformation of China’s economy from a centrally planned to a market-oriented system has had a profound impact on management systems and practices at the firm level, particularly changes to the organization of work. One of the consequences of this is increasing social disparity reflected through inequality of employees’ income and employment conditions. This book, based on extensive original ... Read more

    $59.99 USD