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  • Demography and Degeneration

    Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-Century Britain

    par Richard A. Soloway ...
    Richard Soloway offers a compelling and authoritative study of the relationship of the eugenics movement to the dramatic decline in the birthrate and family size in twentieth-century Britain. Working in a tradition of hereditarian determinism which held fast to the premise that “like tends to beget like,” eugenicists developed and promoted a theory of biosocial engineering through selective ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877-1930

    par Richard A. Soloway ...
    Soloway examines the origins of the modern birth control movement in England in the wider context of the dramatic decline in fertility that first became apparent in the 1880s. He concludes that the response of individuals and organizations drawn into the debate over birth control and the consequences of diminished fertility mirrored their attitudes toward the profound social, economic, moral, ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Poverty and Compassion

    The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

    par Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
    In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Age of Light, Soap, and Water

    Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925

    par Mariana Valverde ...
    "BACK IN PRINT WITH A NEW INTRODUCTIONThe turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada. Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and “white slavery.”Mariana Valverde's groundbreaking The Age of Light, Soap, and Waterexamines the work and the ideas of moralist clergy, ... En savoir plus

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  • Burdens of History

    British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

    par Antoinette Burton ...
    In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of ... En savoir plus

    $31.19 CAD

  • After Adam Smith

    A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy

    par Murray Milgate, Shannon C. Stimson ...
    How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politicsFew issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British economy was transformed. After Adam Smith looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered. It considers how grand ... En savoir plus

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  • Discovering Confederation

    A Canadian's Story

    par Janet Ajzenstat ...
    Collections Livre 19 - Footprints Series
    Janet Ajzenstat is one of Canada's most respected thinkers on the moral and philosophical foundations of responsible government and Confederation. Discovering Confederation is a study of political science over the last forty years through the intellectual lens of her career.Ajzenstat details her academic journey, from her early years as a hopeful, radical activist in the 1960s, through her ... En savoir plus

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  • Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

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    Collections series Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
    This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between past and present, it ... En savoir plus

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  • Malthus

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Donald Winch ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies Malthus's ideas, assessing the profound influence he has had on modern economic thought. Concentrating on his writings, Winch sheds light on the context ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Up the Republic!

    Towards a New Ireland

    par Fintan O'Toole ...
    In this important book, historians, lawyers, economists and writers come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse has resulted in national humiliation, renewed emigration and a decline in living standards for the majority of the population, there is still hope that the country can be reformed and renewed.Irish politicians offered the now notorious blanket ... En savoir plus

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  • The Idea of Greater Britain

    Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900

    par Duncan Bell ...
    During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties of the age in the idea of Greater Britain, a union of the United Kingdom and its ... En savoir plus

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  • Health, Civilization and the State

    A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

    par Dorothy Porter ...
    This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times* the Enlightenment and its effects* ... En savoir plus

    $92.06 CAD