Autor: Peter Mandler

Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire’, the place and the time when people were most 'free’ to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. T …

Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation’, `domestici …

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and ’30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the mo …

Cultural and intellectual history: interdisciplinary: applicable to a wide range of fields Contains ten mini-biographies of both well-known and unusual figures Readable, lively and will appeal to rea …

Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation”, `domestic …

Who were the poor of the world’s first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth- …

Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to universi …

Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to universi …