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  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 6

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tom Crook, Barbara Leckie ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 4

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tom Crook, Barbara Leckie ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume. ... Read more

    $255.99 USD

  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 5

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tom Crook, Barbara Leckie ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The many lives of corruption

    The reform of public life in modern Britain, c. 1750–1950

    Edited by Ian Cawood, Tom Crook ...
    How has corruption shaped – and undermined – the history of public life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristocratic privilege during the late eighteenth century through to the corruption scandals that blighted the worlds of Westminster and municipal government ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Governing Risks in Modern Britain

    Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800–2000

    Edited by Mike Esbester, Tom Crook ...
    Series series History (R0)
    For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Statistics and the Public Sphere

    Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000

    Edited by Tom Crook, Glen O'Hara ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting criticism on the grounds of their veracity and utility. However, the historical role and place of statistics within Britain’s public sphere has yet to receive the attention it deserves. There exist ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Governing Systems

    Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910

    by Tom Crook ...
    Series Book 11 - Berkeley Series in British Studies
    When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureacratic state, but in the contested ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Dirty Old London

    The Victorian Fight Against Filth

    by Lee Jackson ...
    In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to ... Read more

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  • Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

    Edited by Gail Lewis ...
    Series series Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
    This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between past and present, it ... Read more

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  • Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain

    by E. Royston pike ...
    Series series Economic History
    First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. Its aim and purpose is to enable the men and women—and, let it be said, the children and young people ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Great Exhibition, 1851

    A sourcebook

    Edited by Jonathon Shears ...
    Series series Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
    The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal Commission, diaries, journals, celebratory poems and essays, many of these documents ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns

    Enriched edition. Uncovering Health Hazards in Urban Burial Practices

    by Edwin Chadwick, Vanessa Cross ...
    In "A Supplementary Report on the Results of a Special Inquiry into the Practice of Interment in Towns," Edwin Chadwick presents a meticulous examination of urban burial practices in 19th-century England. This pivotal work, characterized by its empirical research and analytical rigor, unveils the public health crises perpetuated by inadequate interment practices, illuminating the interplay between ... Read more

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