Product Description: The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor...read more

Product Description: Britain and the United States share a common language, a liberal and cultural heritage and a democratic political system. They also have pronounced differences, for their economic, political and social structures have developed in distinctive ways...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays explores the process of social investigation in Victorian Britain. The contributors also assess the possibilities of the data collected for further historical inquiry. Women. Jews, maps, schools, churches and gambling are represented...read more

Product Description: A documentary history of Anglo-Jewry which explores the immigrant experience and its impact on the position and structure of the community in the 19th and 20th centuries. Following an introduction to the work, it features sections on the Jewish immigrant, the institutions of Anglo-Jewry, the Jewish Quarter, labour and employment, politics, religion, education, the Jewish question, and finally, war...read more

Product Description: Charles Booth's pioneering survey, Life and Labour of the People in London, published in seventeen volumes between 1889 and 1903, was a landmark in empirical social investigation. His panorama of London life has dominated all subsequent accounts: its scope, precision and detail make it an unrivalled source for the period...read more

Essays examine how the Jewish culture has survived in the face of persecution, dispersal, pogroms, and the Holocaust

Product Description: This open university reader is a wide-ranging inter-displinary collection of material illustrating the relationship between cultural change and religious belief in 16th century Europe. It contains more than 80 extracts drawn from a variety of genres including political, religious, philosophical and legal writing, diaries, letters, plays, poems and fiction...read more