Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan, Simon Gunn, Susan C. Townsend
Автор: Coopey, Richard; Lyth, Peter Название: Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century ISBN: 0199226008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199226009 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16236.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of fresh, incisive scholarship, by some of the leading business historians, critically examines the nature of economic recovery in Britain in recent years. Covering the key issues for business history in this period, this overview confronts the traditional literature`s conclusions and simplistic explanations.
Автор: Greenhalgh Charlotte Название: Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain ISBN: 0520298780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520298781 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As the baby-boom generation reaches retirement and old age, bringing unprecedented challenges, this important study of aging could not be more timely. Historian Charlotte Greenhalgh uncovers ignored testimony to urge us to hear the voices of elderly people in Britain throughout the twentieth century. Using meticulous archival research, she probes the work of Peter Townsend, one of Britain's most celebrated social scientists. As this groundbreaking book shows, our keen interest in the needs and potential of older people has a long history. A comprehensive and sensitive study of the emotional, social, familial, and institutional lives of the elderly, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era. Greenhalgh demonstrates not just that old lives matter historically but that older people have helped to drive developments in social welfare, social science, and popular culture in Britain.
Автор: M. Sterenberg Название: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain ISBN: 134999992X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349999927 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.
Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed - it was an issue that had become increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with emotion. In order to understand why this was, it is necessary to examine how ordinary people learned about and experienced capital punishment.
Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular protest against capital punishment and public responses to and understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of justice. Miscarriages of justice were significant to capital punishment's increasingly fraught nature in the mid twentieth-century and the book analyses the unsettling power of two such high profile miscarriages of justice. The final chapters consider the continuing relevance of capital punishment in Britain after abolition, including its symbolism and how people negotiate memories of the death penalty.
Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain is groundbreaking in its attention to the death penalty and the effect it had on everyday life and it is the only text on this era to place public and popular discourses about, and reactions to, capital punishment at the centre of the analysis. Interdisciplinary in focus and methodology, it will appeal to historians, criminologists, sociologists and socio-legal scholars.
Автор: Chamion Caballero; Peter J. Aspinall Название: Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century ISBN: 1137339276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137339270 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 17468.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries.
Автор: Jones Название: Health and Society in Twentieth Century Britain ISBN: 113883615X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138836150 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Few things tell us more of a nation's general well-being than the development of the life-expectancy of its citizens; the rising standards of health that they come to demand; and how evenly that improvement is shared throughout society. Helen Jones examines the record of twentieth-century Britain in these respects. She has much heartening progress to record - yet stark inequalities remain. Her book is thus both a review of, and contribution to, the current debates over gender, class and ethnic inequalities in standards of health in Britain today.
Автор: Patrick T. Merricks Название: Religion and Racial Progress in Twentieth-Century Britain ISBN: 3319539876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319539874 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As a testament to the popularity of the movement, mid-twentieth century British eugenics is contextualized within a remarkably diverse selection of discourses including secular and Anglican interpretations of modernism, poverty, population, gender equality, pacifism and racism.
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