Mid-Victorian Britain : 1851-1875

Mid-Victorian Britain : 1851-1875

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal : Best Geoffrey Francis Andrew (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Mid-Victorian Britain : 1851-1875 / Geoffrey Best,...
Publié : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson , C 1971
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-316 p.-[24] p. de pl.)
Collection : History of British society ed. by E.J. Hobsbawm
Titre de l'ensemble : The History of British society
Sujets :
Conditions sociales > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siècle
Grande-Bretagne > 1837-1901 (Victoria)
Particularités de l'exemplaire : BU Droit, Ex. 1 :
Provenance : Don Prudhomme
  • 1- The Mid-Victorian Environment.
  • Introduction: The Economic Background.
  • The Urban Environment.
  • Housing and Homes.
  • The Railway and the City.
  • Local Self-government.
  • Public Health and Civic Amenities.
  • The Countryside.
  • The Railway and the Country.
  • 2- The Making of Livings.
  • The Cult of Work.
  • Middle-Class Incomes.
  • The Middle-Class.
  • Lower-Class Incomes.
  • Women at Work.
  • Children at Work.
  • Improvments in Working Hours and Conditions.
  • Poverty and Unemployment.
  • Philanthropy and Poor Relief.
  • 3- Education, Religion and the Uses of 'Leisure'.
  • Education and the Social Hierarchy.
  • Religion and the Social Order.
  • Society at Play.
  • 4- The Social Order of Mid-Victorian Britain.
  • Nobility and Gentry.
  • The Gentlemen.
  • Respectability and Independance.
  • Social Dissidence.
  • Crime and Coercion.