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Social Agencies and Institutions

Series The Cambridge Social History of Britain
1750–1950, Volume 3

Edited by F. M. L.
Thompson

Publication Date 1990

Hardback ISBN-10 0521257905

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521257909

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521257909

Overview

Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no
such thing as society historians have had no difficulty in finding their
subject. The difficulty, rather, is that the advance has occurred through such
an outpouring of research and writing that it is hard for anyone but the
specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these
three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists
has assembled the jigsaw of recent monographic research and presented an
interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from
three complementary perspectives: those of regional communities, of the working
and living environment, and of social institutions. Each volume is
self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own
chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an
authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of
society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic
change.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see Social Agencies and
Institutions in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The
Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950 Vol. 3: Social Agencies and
Institutions

Frontmatter

Government
and society in England and Wales, 1750–1914 by Pat
Thane

Society
and the state in twentieth-century Britain by José
Harris

Education
by Gillian
Sutherland

Health
and medicine by Virginia
Berridge

Crime,
authority and the policeman-state by V. A. C.
Gatrell

Religion
by James
Obelkevich

Philanthropy
by F. K.
Prochaska

Clubs,
societies and associations by R. J.
Morris

Bibliography

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