Catherine Lee 
Policing Prostitution, 1856–1886 [EPUB ebook] 
Deviance, Surveillance and Morality

Between his inauguration and September 11, 2001, George W. Bush»s presidency appeared to lack focus. The rhetoric of the campaign trail did not readily translate into concrete policies and a closely …

This third volume in Michael Kettle»s series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had …

George Bell remains one of only a handful of twentieth-century English bishops to possess a continuing international reputation for his involvement in political affairs. His insistence that Christian …

Displaying Women explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen—on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable …

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with top Chinese officials, parliamentarians, scholars, and businessmen, Willy Lam, a renowned journalist and writer on Chinese affairs, presents a first-hand, multi …

First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change — political, social, and intellectual — which determines the …

This concise and comprehensive introduction to economics offers readers at all levels a more realistic approach to understanding the elements of resource and product markets, including the role of bu …

First published in 1905, this book charts the history of English philanthropy from the Elizabethan period through to the nineteenth century. In doing so, Benjamin Kirkman Gray posed some important qu …

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenme …

During the Second World War several independent business organizations in the US devoted considerable energy to formulating and advocating social and economic policy options for the US government for …