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Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain
1st Edition
By Greta Jones
April 01, 2025
In the early twentieth century, a group of writers and publicists began to talk and write about social hygiene or more commonly known as the theory of eugenics. By this they meant the improvement of the quality of the population by a conscious intervention in the biological laws which governed its ...
Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire
1st Edition
By H. E. Bracey
April 01, 2025
Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire was first published in 1952. The original blurb reads: “Outside Wiltshire, Dr Bracey’s book will be welcomed as an example of a new technique applied to the solution of an urgent rural problem. The problem, briefly, is whether our ancient market centres and ...
Social Theory for Planning
1st Edition
By Joe Bailey
April 01, 2025
Planners necessarily use theories of how society works. More often than not, however, these were left unstated or confused. As the scope of planning increased in the 1970s it became vital that planners adopted a more refined approach to the social life which they tried to influence. Originally ...
Spatial Structures: Introducing the Study of Spatial Systems in Human Geography
1st Edition
By R. J. Johnston
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1973, this book synthesizes the mass of material into an introduction to the study of spatial systems. Geographic literature of the time stressed the influence of the distance between places on both location decision-making and movement patterns, arguing that the spatial ...
Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Neil Joeck
April 01, 2025
Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia (1986) examines the consequences for particular states should India and Pakistan decide to deploy nuclear weapons. It looks in detail at the positions of both India and Pakistan and the responses of the United States, the Soviet Union ...
The Byzantine World
1st Edition
By J. M. Hussey
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Despite internal dissensions and the almost perpetual threat of outside attack, Byzantium maintained a remarkable ...
The Changing Parish: A Study of Parishes, Priests, and Parishioners After Vatican II
1st Edition
By Michael P. Hornsby-Smith
April 01, 2025
First published in 1989, The Changing Parish is the first modern sociological account of the changing Roman Catholic parish in England. It identifies the major changes in parishes and in the roles of parish priests and parishioners. At the heart of the book is a comparison of pre-Vatican and ...
The Concept of Class: An Historical Introduction
1st Edition
By Peter Calvert
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1982, The Concept of Class provides a concise and stimulating guide to the historical development of the concept of ‘class’ and the different ways in which it has been applied in social and political theory. The author begins by determining where and how the word acquired ...
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Hans Christian Johansen
April 01, 2025
The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century (1987) surveys the Danish economy, examining the effects of the rapid industrialisation which occurred in the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows how Denmark was less severely affected by the Depression of the 1930s and ...
The Evolution of the English House
1st Edition
By Sidney Oldall Addy
April 01, 2025
The Evolution of the English House (1933) discusses the popular and native art in domestic English architecture, tracing the changes over the years. The focus is on plain wattled huts and combinations of dwelling-house and cattle-stall, as well as the great villas and picturesque timber houses of ...
The Functional Analysis of Politics: An Introductory Discussion
1st Edition
By Roy E. Jones
April 01, 2025
The Functional Analysis of Politics (1967) discusses the feasibility of looking at political activities as constituting a ‘system’ and of the concepts of ‘structures’ and ‘functions’ as general categories of political activities. As well as expounding and criticising structural-function analysis, ...
The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By W. E. Minchinton
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange of manufactured goods for primary products such as tobacco, sugar, cotton and silk. A notable feature ...