Social Control In Nineteenth Century Britain

Author : A. P. Donajgrodzki
Publisher : London : Croom Helm ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780874718805
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Control in Nineteenth Century Britain written by A. P. Donajgrodzki and published by London : Croom Helm ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield. This book was released on 1977 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angus McLaren
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000629945
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England written by Angus McLaren and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their assumption that the progressive adoption of birth control was largely a matter of the lower classes aping the behaviour of their ‘betters’. Originally published in 1978, this book argues against this interpretation. It contends that the great interest of the nineteenth-century birth control debate is that it reveals that there was not a growing consensus of opinion on the question of family planning but rather two cultural confrontations – the struggle of the middle-class propagandists of both left and right to manipulate for political purposes working-class attitudes towards procreation, and, on a deeper level, the clash of the differing attitudes of men and women towards the possibility of fertility control. The purpose of this study is to place the idea and practice of birth control in their social and political context, and four major factors are focused upon to this end: the first is that the birth control issue played a key role in the confrontation between Malthusians, socialists, eugenists and feminists. Secondly, the whole question of contraception led to a conflict between doctors, quacks, midwives and ordinary men and women seeking to control their own fertility. Thirdly, men and women belong to different sexual cultures and necessarily respond in different ways to the possibility of family regulation, and finally, despite the claims of some that birth control was an innovation, it was the pre-industrial forms of fertility control – including abortion – which brought the birth rate down.

Author : David Churchill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198797842
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City written by David Churchill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in the early modern era, and its replacement by a centralized, bureaucratic system of responding to offending. The formation of the 'new' professional police forces in the nineteenth century is central to this narrative: henceforth, it is claimed, the priorities of criminal justice were to be set by the state, as ordinary people lost what authority they had once exercised over dealing with offenders. This book challenges this established view, and presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity which ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice. With unique conceptual clarity, it seeks to reorient modern criminal justice history away from its established preoccupation with state systems of policing and punishment, and move towards a more nuanced analysis of the governance of crime. More widely, the book provides a unique and valuable vantage point from which to rethink the role of civil society and the state in modern governance, the nature of agency and authority in Victorian England, and the historical antecedents of pluralized modes of crime control which characterize contemporary society.

Author : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674772854
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Respectable Society written by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.

Author : Robert John Morris
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class, Power, and Social Structure in British Nineteenth-century Towns written by Robert John Morris and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Digby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333495698
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Economic and Social History written by Anne Digby and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the subjects of agriculture, economy, society and labour, covering major events in British social history and the impact of such factors as imperialism and the Industrial Revolution.

Author : Martin J. Wiener
Publisher : Rice University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanitarianism Or Control? written by Martin J. Wiener and published by Rice University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Open University
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719025136
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Victorian Britain: Controversies written by Open University and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134240341
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 written by Chris Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914 is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Using chronologies, maps, glossaries, an extensive bibliography, a wealth of statistical information and nearly two hundred biographies of key figures, this clear and concise book provides a comprehensive guide to modern British history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the outbreak of the First World War. As well as the key areas of political, economic and social development of the era, this book also covers the increasingly emergent themes of sexuality, leisure, gender and the environment, exploring in detail the following aspects of the nineteenth century: parliamentary and political reform chartism, radicalism and popular protest the Irish Question the rise of Imperialism the regulation of sexuality and vice the development of organised sport and leisure the rise of consumer society. This book is an ideal reference resource for students and teachers alike.

Author : Leeann Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381828
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century written by Leeann Lane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It has often been argued that 'modern' leisure was born in the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War One. Then, it has been suggested, that if leisure was not 'invented' its forms and meanings changed. Despite the recent expansion of the literature on Irish popular cultures - perhaps most strikingly sport - the conceptions, purposes, and practical manifestations of leisure among the Irish during this critical period have yet to receive the attention they deserve. This collection represents an attempt to address this. In twelve essays that explore vibrant expressions of associational culture, the emergence of new leisure spaces, literary manifestations and representations of leisure, the pleasures and purposes of travel, and the leisure pursuits of elite women the collection offers a variety of perspectives on the volume's theme. As becomes apparent in these studies, all manner of activity, from music to football, reading to dining, travel to photography, dancing to dining, visiting to cycling, child's play to fighting and attitudes to these were shaped not just by the drive to pleasure but by ideas of class, respectability, improvement and social control as well as political, social, educational, medical and religious ideologies." --