| Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain Contributor(s): Mandler, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 019927133X ISBN-13: 9780199271337 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: 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, by leading historians of nineteenth-century state and society, asks to what extent that was true and, to the extent that it was, how it worked. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Social History - Political Science |
| Dewey: 941.081 |
| LCCN: 2006018898 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.08 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, by leading historians of nineteenth-century state and society, asks to what extent that was true and, to the extent that it was, how it worked. |