David Eversley's Books

Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism

By: David Z. Levine

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism

By: David Z. Levine

Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism deals with the impact of early capitalism on the strategies of family formation among four sets of English villagers in the period before the wholesale switch-over to factory industry. This era, roughly speaking from 1550 to 1850, has been variously described as ""traditional,"" ""preindustrial,"" and, more recently, ""protoindustrial."" However, the author sees it as a stage in the transition from feudalism to capitalism—a halfway house. The book begins by placing the study in the context of the larger debate concerning nascent capitalism, early rural industrialization, and the growth of population. Separate chapters then discuss the growth and structure of the framework knitting industry in Shepshed and the social implications of this economic change; the patterns of immigration, population turnover, and generational replacement in Shepshed and Bottesford; and industrial involution and domestic organization in 1851. Subsequent chapters deal with the demographic implications of rural industrialization; the relationship between economic opportunity and family formation; and relationships among the expectation of marriage, bridal pregnancy, and illegitimacy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

1483260755

ISBN 13

9781483260754

Population Growth and Agrarian Change

An Historical Perspective

By: David B. Grigg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Population Growth and Agrarian Change

An Historical Perspective

By: David B. Grigg

This book, first published in 1980, suggests some ways of looking at the interrelationships between population growth and agrarian change, and uses these approaches to consider the demographic and agrarian problems of various parts of Europe in the past - in the fourteenth century, the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and in the early nineteenth century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

360

Publisher

CUP Archive

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521296358

ISBN 13

9780521296359

Census

The Family Historian's Guide

By: Peter Christian,David Annal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Census

The Family Historian's Guide

By: Peter Christian,David Annal

Fully revised and updated, this book is a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to help you make the most of UK census records in your family history research. This practical handbook shows you how to interpret the records to discover intricate details of your ancestors' lives, but also explores how and why information on names, addresses, family relationships and occupations was gathered. Intriguing case studies reveal why problems occur and what may be hidden between the lines, while photographs and screenshots illustrate the records themselves and the websites which provide access to them. This new edition of Census has been updated to cover: · the many innovations on the main census websites, which have all added new census data and made changes to their facilities in the six years since the first edition; · the complete records of the 1911 census for England, Wales and Scotland, now available on both official and other commercial sites; and · all the surviving Irish census records, which have now been digitised in their entirety. Hands-on and incisive, Census considers online access to the returns in detail, covering both free and commercial sites, along with discussion of search techniques and the problems of transcription errors. A tour of key census sites reveals the most useful facilities and best quality images, as well as offline sources in the form of microfilm, CDs and DVDs. Census is an invaluable guide to this unique historical resource.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

393

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472902955

ISBN 13

9781472902955

Refashioning Nature

Food, Ecology and Culture

By: David Goodman,Michael Redclift

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Refashioning Nature

Food, Ecology and Culture

By: David Goodman,Michael Redclift

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David Goodman and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food system, integrating different bodies of knowledge and debate concerning food, agriculture, the environment and the household. They link changes in our diet and concern with the environment to many of the problems afflicting developing countries: food shortages, poor nutrition and wholesale environmental destruction.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

338

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

113491864X

ISBN 13

9781134918645

Gypsy-Travellers in Nineteenth-Century Society

By: David Mayall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Gypsy-Travellers in Nineteenth-Century Society

By: David Mayall

This book critically examines the nature and source of Gypsy stereotypes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

282

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521323975

ISBN 13

9780521323970

Disturbing the Nest

Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies

By: David Popenoe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Disturbing the Nest

Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies

By: David Popenoe

Disturbing the Nest assesses the future of the family as an institution through an historical and comparative analysis of the nature, causes, and social implications of family change in advanced western societies such as the United States, New Zealand, and Switzerland by focusing on the one society in which family decline is found to be the greatest, Sweden. The founding of the modern Swedish welfare state was based in large part on the belief that it was necessary for the state to intervene in society in order to improve the situation of the family. Of great concern was the low birthrate, which was seen as a threat to the very survival of Swedes as a national population group. The Social Democrats pioneered welfare measures that aimed to strengthen the family, to alleviate its worst trials and tribulations, and to make possible harmonious living. With the Social Democrats remaining in power continuously until 1976, a period of almost forty-five years, Sweden went on to implement governmental "family policies" that are among the most comprehensive (and expensive) in the world. In view of this major policy goal of family improvement, the actual situation of the Swedish family today presents a genuine irony; some have claimed that Swedish welfare state policies have had consequences that are the opposite of those originally intended. Comparing contemporary Swedish family patterns with those of other advanced nations, one finds a very high family dissolution rate, probably the highest in the Western world, and a high percentage of single-parent, female headed families. Even marriage seems to have fallen increasingly out of favor, with Sweden having the lowest marriage rate and latest age of first marriage, and the highest rate of children born out-of-wedlock. The early pronatalist aspirations of the Swedish government have been spectacularly unsuccessful, as Sweden continues to have one of the world's lowest birthrates and smallest average family sizes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

410

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000160882

ISBN 13

9781000160888

In Churchill's Shadow

Confronting the Past in Modern Britain

By: David Cannadine

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In Churchill's Shadow

Confronting the Past in Modern Britain

By: David Cannadine

With In Churchill's Shadow, David Cannadine offers an intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the British present, often crushing efforts to shake them off. The book centers on Churchill, a titanic figure whose influence spanned the century. Though he was the savior of modern Britain, Churchill was a creature of the Victorian age. Though he proclaimed he had not become Prime Minister to "preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," in effect he was doomed to do just that. And though he has gone down in history for his defiant orations during the crisis of World War II, Cannadine shows that for most of his career Churchill's love of rhetoric was his own worst enemy. Cannadine turns an equally insightful gaze on the institutions and individuals that embodied the image of Britain in this period: Gilbert & Sullivan, Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, the National Trust, and the Palace of Westminster itself, the home and symbol of Britain's parliamentary government. This superb volume offers a wry, sympathetic, yet penetrating look at how national identity evolved in the era of the waning of an empire.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

402

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

019517156X

ISBN 13

9780195171563

John Lewis

A Life

By: David Greenberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

John Lewis

A Life

By: David Greenberg

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents. Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he made into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he nearly died. Greenberg’s biography traces Lewis’s life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress.” Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, Greenberg’s biography captures John Lewis’s influential career through documents from dozens of archives, interviews with hundreds of people who knew Lewis, and long-lost footage of Lewis himself speaking to reporters from his hospital bed following his severe beating on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma. With new details about his personal and professional relationships, John Lewis: A Life is the definitive biography of a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

704

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1982143010

ISBN 13

9781982143015

F. D. Maurice and Unitarianism

By: David Young

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

F. D. Maurice and Unitarianism

By: David Young

F.D. Maurice (1805-72) was one of Victorian Britain's most controversial thinkers. Although he came from a Unitarian family and counted leading Unitarians as his friends, their influence on his work has never been seriously examined. The purpose of this new book is to look at his life and teaching in the light of Unitarianism. Maurice's faith had a distinctly Christological emphasis, but he continued to value his Unitarian heritage. His concern with the Fatherhood of God and the dignity of the human race owes much to his family background. Young's study opens with a compact history of Unitarianism during the lifetimes of Maurice and his father, a Unitarian minister. A series of biographical sketches draws on hitherto unpublished material to set Maurice's work in its historic context. Final chapters compare the central themes of his theology with the teaching of his Unitarian contemporaries.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198263392

ISBN 13

9780198263395

Colonial Immigrants in a British City

A Class Analysis

By: John Rex,Sally Tomlinson,David Hearnden,Peter Ratcliffe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Colonial Immigrants in a British City

A Class Analysis

By: John Rex,Sally Tomlinson,David Hearnden,Peter Ratcliffe

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a British city. Based on a four-year research project in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, the book is a study of race and community relations – political, social, economic and personal – in a major centre of immigrant settlement. It considers the relationship between housing class and class formations and consciousness in other sectors of allocation, such as employment and education. It includes a consideration of the changing political climate on race relations between 1950 and 1976.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

357

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000777375

ISBN 13

9781000777376

The Quest for a Radical Profession

Social Service Careers and Political Ideology

By: David Wagner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Quest for a Radical Profession

Social Service Careers and Political Ideology

By: David Wagner

This book, based on in-depth interviews of radical social workers, who at one time were associated with the Catalyst collective, explores through oral history the social psychological effects of upward mobility on political ideology. Historically large numbers of idealistic activists entered social work and other human services professions, but there have been few studies about the careers of such individuals and what has happened to radicals who pursue careers as community organizers, caseworkers or therapists, administrators or planners. Contents: A Radical Professionalism?; Radical Social Work; The Moral Careers of Radical Social Service Workers-Becoming Radical, Becoming Social Workers, Images of Success/Worlds of Pain, and Occupations and Ideology; Radicalism, Social Action, and Social Service Careers-The Decline of Oppositional Activism, Politics at the Retail Level: 'Radical Practice', The Absorption of Radicalism; and Bibliography.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

278

Publisher

University Press of America

Published Date

ISBN 10

0819177512

ISBN 13

9780819177513

Possibilities

Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire

By: David Graeber

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Possibilities

Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire

By: David Graeber

An anthropologist investigates the revolution of everyday life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

441

Publisher

AK Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1904859666

ISBN 13

9781904859666

In Byron's Shadow

Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination

By: David Roessel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In Byron's Shadow

Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination

By: David Roessel

Modern Greece, constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been "haunted, holy ground" in English and American literature for almost two centuries. In Byron's Shadow analyzes how authors employ ideas about romantic nationalism, gender politics, shifts in cultural constructions, and literary experimentation to create variations of "Greece" to suit changing eras.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

416

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190286784

ISBN 13

9780190286781

Democratic Socialism in Britain, Vol. 6

Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825-1952

By: David Reisman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democratic Socialism in Britain, Vol. 6

Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825-1952

By: David Reisman

The texts in this collection of 10 volumes demonstrate both the diversity and continuity in British theories of democratic socialism. The selection encompasses the Ricardian socialists, the Christian socialists, and the Fabian socialists. Volume 6 includes ‘A Grammar of Politics’ by Harold Laski.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

557

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

100041941X

ISBN 13

9781000419412

Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890

By: David Hampton,Myrtle Hull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890

By: David Hampton,Myrtle Hull

This major new book represents the first serious study of Irish evangelicalism. The authors examine the social history of popular protestantism in Ulster from the Evangelical Revival in the mid-eighteenth century to the conflicts generated by proposals for Irish Home Rule at the end of the nineteenth century. Many of the central themes of the book are at the forefront of recent work on popular religion including the relationship between religion and national identity, the role of women in popular religion, the causes and consequences of religious revivalism, and the impact of social change on religious experience. The authors draw on a wide range of primary sources from the early eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. In addition, they display an impressive mastery of the wider literature on popular religion in the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134899041

ISBN 13

9781134899043

Which Sin to Bear?

Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes

By: David E. Chinitz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Which Sin to Bear?

Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes

By: David E. Chinitz

Langston Hughes survived as a writer for over forty years under conditions that made survival virtually heroic. Determined on a literary career at a time when no African American had yet been able to live off his or her writing, Hughes not only faced poverty and racism but found himself pressed by the conflicting hopes, expectations, and demands of readers and critics. He relied on his skill as a mediator among competing positions in order to preserve his art, his integrity, and his unique status as the poetic voice of ordinary African Americans. Which Sin To Bear? explores Hughes's efforts to negotiate the problems of identity and ethics he faced as an African American professional writer and intellectual. The book traces his early efforts to fashion himself as an "authentic" black poet of the Harlem Renaissance and his later imagining of a new and more inclusive understanding of authentic blackness. It examines Hughes's lasting, yet self-critical commitment to progressive politics in the mid-century years. And it shows how, in spite of his own ambivalence--and, at times, anguish--Hughes was forced to engage in ethical compromises to achieve his personal and social goals. The book is also the first to analyze Hughes's executive-session testimony before Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which was unavailable to the public for half a century. David Chinitz digs into Hughes's creative work, newspaper columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating obstacles, and whose triumphs and occasional missteps are a fascinating and telling part of his legacy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199311595

ISBN 13

9780199311590

Old Age in the Old Regime

Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France

By: David Troyansky

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Old Age in the Old Regime

Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France

By: David Troyansky

This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501746367

ISBN 13

9781501746369

Democratic Socialism in Britain, Vol. 2

Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825-1952

By: David Reisman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democratic Socialism in Britain, Vol. 2

Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825-1952

By: David Reisman

The texts in this collection of 10 volumes demonstrate both the diversity and continuity in British theories of democratic socialism. The selection encompasses the Ricardian socialists, the Christian socialists, and the Fabian socialists. Volume 2 includes contributions from .Frederick Denison, Maurice Charles Kingsley and John Malcolm Ludlow, the ‘Christian Socialists’.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

415

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000420388

ISBN 13

9781000420388

Abolition and Its Aftermath

The Historical Context 1790-1916

By: David Richardson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Abolition and Its Aftermath

The Historical Context 1790-1916

By: David Richardson

First published in 1987. With the exception of Barbara Bush's contribution, all the papers and commentaries contained in this volume were presented at a conference at Thwaite Hall, University of Hull, 26-29 July 1983. The conference was organised to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and was attended by over eighty scholars from Britain, Western Europe, the USA and the Caribbean.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

293

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136283714

ISBN 13

9781136283710

Transitions In Context: Leaving Home, Independence And Adulthood

Leaving home, independence and adulthood

By: Holdsworth, Clare,Morgan, David

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Transitions In Context: Leaving Home, Independence And Adulthood

Leaving home, independence and adulthood

By: Holdsworth, Clare,Morgan, David

This book, written by Clare Holdsworth and David Morgan, looks at the socially significant event of leaving the parental home.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

182

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published Date

ISBN 10

0335215386

ISBN 13

9780335215386

The Truth Ain’T Popular

Impediments to Hope

By: Dr. David L. Mount

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Truth Ain’T Popular

Impediments to Hope

By: Dr. David L. Mount

Behavioral Health Equity through Human services integration, forged in part through legislative and policy solutions, is key to reducing health disparities and promote good health outcomes across multicultural communities, said Dr. David L. Mount (founder and president for the NC Network for Human Services Integration to Prosperity). Voices in advance praise for Dr. David L. Mounts The Truth Aint Popular: Impediments to Hope As the nation steps into the dawn of 2020, community revitalization through Human Service Integration will become the emerging Civil Rights movement. Dr. Mount takes on a storytelling that seeks to reject a one size fit all framework, choosing to name and frame the multiplicity of we. He holds that we must cast the brightest shot light on a collective resilience while embracing a person-centered social justice (Ms. Kara Morrison). This book has economic implications viewed through the lens of social capital. The framework lifted up is based on the working model that use, access, acceptability and holistic outreach may fail to detect issues surrounding shaming, negative stereotypes, resilience, and alliance biases (Jason E. Mount, MBA). Professor Mount points out that the content of our lives has market value beyond the traditional commercial venues, where the everyday person is consistently fighting against a psychological bankruptcy. The implications for human services integration to prosperity echoes a call to stop scapegoating human suffering (Ms. Mara Ramirez). In many ways, the movement surrounding human services integration to prosperity works to place in the forefront a call to action on behalf of socially, emotionally, and economically oppressed communities, where folk are walking on an increasingly uncertain floor while reconstructing hope and attempting to dream against the noise of a shaky future (Ms. Yvonne Bowser). How, why and when vulnerable people matter is worthy of ongoing critic. The author underscores the psychosocial determinants of health with attention to galvanizing a major paradigm shift that will positively impact social justice through human services integration (Dr. Bobby Dunn).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1524551988

ISBN 13

9781524551988

Spain

A Modern European Economy

By: Dr David Corkill,Dr Joseph Harrison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Spain

A Modern European Economy

By: Dr David Corkill,Dr Joseph Harrison

Perhaps more than any other European country, Spain has undergone a remarkable transformation in the post-war period. To the surprise of many, it has succeeded in making the leap from a predominantly agricultural and politically repressed country, to a modern European democracy with a diversified economy containing important manufacturing and service sectors. Yet, despite the fact that at the beginning of the twenty-first century Spain is the world's eighth largest economy, old stereotypes that see the Iberian nation as an inflexible, unchanging society, persist. As such, scholars will welcome this new study which challenges the picaresque and outdated notions of Spanish economic development, replacing them with a picture of rapid and profound modernization. Building upon the recent work of historians and economists, the authors provide a thoughtful and compelling overview of the subject that clearly elucidates both the positive and negative aspects of modern Spanish development. Thus, as well as charting the undoubted successes achieved, persistent problems - most notably high unemployment - are also explored. Written in a straightforward and engaging manner, this book engages with research from a wide variety of disciplines, and will be of interest to anyone with a specific interest in modern Spain, or a wider interest in economic development within the framework of the European Union.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

365

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

140947951X

ISBN 13

9781409479512

Exaggerated Claims?

The ESRC, 50 Years On

By: David Walker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Exaggerated Claims?

The ESRC, 50 Years On

By: David Walker

David Walker’s analysis is incisive and hard hitting. Anyone who believes in the power of social science to inform better policy making should take his criticisms seriously." - Sue Duncan, Former Chief Government Social Researcher and Head of the Government Social Research Service "David Walker has written an unofficial summary of ESRC′s achievements and struggles. He brings to the task long experience of the organisation and of the key players, a great familiarity with the literature and a sceptical nature. The result is stimulating, instructive, contentious and sometimes even infuriating." - David Rhind, Chair of the Nuffield Foundation What is the role of the state in distributing research money? How do ′arm′s-length′ funding agencies relate to public policy and business? This original study looks at the main social science funding agency in the UK, which was established 50 years ago. It examines how funding decisions are related to power. The ′critical′ and ‘policy′ aspects of successful research bids are discussed. Walker asks the tricky question, why has social science research not achieved a more salient role in state policy formation and management strategy: is the funding agency responsible? Insightful, engrossing and highly original, the book will be required reading for anyone who has written or will write a Social Science research bid and, more widely, for students of power, knowledge and culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

129

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

147396704X

ISBN 13

9781473967045

The New Politics of British Trade Unionism

Union Power and the Thatcher Legacy

By: David Marsh

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The New Politics of British Trade Unionism

Union Power and the Thatcher Legacy

By: David Marsh

The curbing of trade union power is often seen as one of the major achievements of Margaret Thatcher's premiership. David Marsh's book provides a broad-ranging introduction to British trade unionism in the 1990s and an assessment of the last decade's major changes in legislation, policing and attitudes. He concludes that while the political role of unions has been reduced, much less has changed at shopfloor level; moveover what has changed has owed more to economic recession than government action.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

286

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1349219215

ISBN 13

9781349219216

The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889

The Metropolitan Board of Works, the Vestries, and the City Corporation

By: David Edward Owen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889

The Metropolitan Board of Works, the Vestries, and the City Corporation

By: David Edward Owen

Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

500

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674358856

ISBN 13

9780674358850

Albion's Seed

Four British Folkways in America

By: David Hackett Fischer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Albion's Seed

Four British Folkways in America

By: David Hackett Fischer

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

981

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199742537

ISBN 13

9780199742530

Tennyson’s Camelot

The Idylls of the King and its Medieval Sources

By: David Staines

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tennyson’s Camelot

The Idylls of the King and its Medieval Sources

By: David Staines

As the principal narrative poem of nineteenth-century England, Tennyson's Idylls of the King is an ambitious and widely influential reworking of the Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages, which have provided a great body of myth and symbol to writers, painters, and composers for the past hundred years. Tennyson's treatment of these legends is now valued as a deeply significant oblique commentary on cultural decadence and the precarious balance of civilization. Drawing upon published and unpublished materials, Tennyson's Camelot studies the Idylls of the King from the perspective of all its medieval sources. In noting the Arthurian literature Tennyson knew and paying special attention to the works that became central to his Arthurian creation, the volume reveals the poet's immense knowledge of the medieval legends and his varied approaches to his sources. The author follows the chronology of composition of the Idylls, allowing the reader to see Tennyson's evolving conception of his poem and his changing attitudes to the medieval accounts. The Idylls of the King stands, ultimately, as the poet's own Camelot, his legacy to his generation, an indictment of his society through a vindication of his idealism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

294

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1554587948

ISBN 13

9781554587940

Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition

The Interface Between Theory and Application

By: Brian Richards,David D. Malvern,Paul Meara,James Milton,Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition

The Interface Between Theory and Application

By: Brian Richards,David D. Malvern,Paul Meara,James Milton,Jeanine Treffers-Daller

International scholars and researchers present cutting edge contributions on the significance of vocabulary in current thinking on first and second language acquisition in the school and at home. By pursuing common themes across first and second language and bilingual contexts, the editors offer a collection that tackles the most important issues.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

0230242251

ISBN 13

9780230242258

The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 4

By: H G Wells,David Smith,Patrick Parrinder

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 4

By: H G Wells,David Smith,Patrick Parrinder

This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

718

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040249884

ISBN 13

9781040249888

The Victorian World Picture

Perceptions and Introspections in an Age of Change

By: David Newsome

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Victorian World Picture

Perceptions and Introspections in an Age of Change

By: David Newsome

David Newsome's monumental history, The Victorian World Picture, takes a good, long look at the Victorian age and what distinguishes it so prominently in the history of both England and the world. The Victorian World Picture presents a vivid canvas of the Victorians as they saw themselves and as the rest of the world saw them.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

342

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813527589

ISBN 13

9780813527581

Second Language Identities

By: David Block

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Second Language Identities

By: David Block

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall. It then examines how in early SLA research focussing on affective variables, identity was an issue, lurking in the wings but not coming to centre stage. Moving to the present, the book then examines in detail and critiques recent research focussing on identity in three distinct second language learning contexts. These contexts are: (1) adult migration, (2) foreign language classrooms and (3) study abroad programmes. The book concludes with suggestions for future research focussing on identity in second language learning.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

289

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472571037

ISBN 13

9781472571038

Book's by David Eversley

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email