[PDF] State And Market In Victorian Britain eBook

Author : Martin J. Daunton
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843833833

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Traces the effects and consequences of radical economic change, moral, social, and fiscal, in the Victorian period.

Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521803724

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Professor Martin Daunton's major work of original synthesis explores the politics of taxation in the "long" nineteenth century. In 1799, income tax stood at 20% of national income; by the outbreak of the First World War, it was 10%. This equitable exercise in fiscal containment lent the government a high level of legitimacy, allowing it to fund war and welfare in the twentieth century. Combining new research with a comprehensive survey of existing knowledge, this book examines the complex financial relationship between the State and its citizens.

Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400842182

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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.

Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1982-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521270649

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A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.

Author : Geoffrey Russell Searle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198206989

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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.

Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300192053

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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.

Author : Peter Mandler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 019927133X

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Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire', the place and the time when people were most 'free' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book explores the truth of that assumption and what it might mean. It considers what the Victorian State did or did not do, what were the prevailing definitions and practices of 'liberty', what other sources of discipline and authority existed beyond the State to structure people'slives - in sum, what were the broad conditions under which such a profound belief in 'liberty' could flourish, and a complex society be run on those principles. Contributors include leading scholars in British political, social and cultural history, so that 'liberty' is seen in the round, not justas a set of ideas or of political slogans, but also as a public and private philosophy that structured everyday life. Consideration is also given to the full range of British subjects in the nineteenth century - men, women, people of all classes, from all parts of the British Isles - and to placing the British experience in a global and comparative perspective.

Author : Michael Taylor
Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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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.