State and Market in Victorian Britain
Title | State and Market in Victorian Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Martin J. Daunton |
Publisher | Boydell Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781843833833 |
Traces the effects and consequences of radical economic change, moral, social, and fiscal, in the Victorian period.
Market Disciplines in Victorian Britain
Title | Market Disciplines in Victorian Britain PDF eBook |
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Release | 2005 |
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Prostitution and Victorian Society
Title | Prostitution and Victorian Society PDF eBook |
Author | Judith R. Walkowitz |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1982-10-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521270649 |
A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.
Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain
Title | Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Russell Searle |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780198206989 |
How could Victorian capitalist values be harmonized with Christian beliefs and concepts of public morality and social duty? This book explores ideas about citizenship and public virtue and how public morality was reconciled with the market.
Dirty Old London
Title | Dirty Old London PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Jackson |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300192053 |
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 stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
The Great Victorian Boom, 1850-1873
Title | The Great Victorian Boom, 1850-1873 PDF eBook |
Author | Roy A. Church |
Publisher | MacMillan Publishing Company |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Men Versus the State
Title | Men Versus the State PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Taylor |
Publisher | Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This book is a study both of the political philosophy of Herbert Spencer (considered by many Victorians to be the greatest philosopher of their age) and of the ideas of the Individualists, a group of political thinkers inspired by him to uphold the policy of laisses-faire during the 1880s and 1890s. Despite their important contribution to nineteenth-century political debate, these thinkers have been neglected by historians, who have concentrated on the advocates of an enhanced role for government in economic and social affairs. The Individualists were forceful critics of this tendency to extend the frontiers of the State. This, the first comprehensive study of their ideas, sheds new light on the nature of late Victorian political argument. The book also provides an original perspective on Spencer's political philosophy, which provided Individualism with much of its intellectual justification. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to see free-market conservatism in a historical context.