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The Practice of Collective Escape

Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects

By: Helen Traill

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The Practice of Collective Escape

Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects

By: Helen Traill

Escape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial stigma have led to retreatist behaviours such as gated communities, enclave urbanism and white flight. By contrast, urban community growing projects are often considered by practitioners and commentators as communal havens in a stressful cityscape. Drawing on ethnographic research in urban growing projects in Glasgow, this book explores the spatial politics and dynamics of community, asking who benefits from such projects and how they relate to the wider city. A timely consideration of localism and community empowerment, the book sheds light on key issues of urban land use, the right to the city and the value of social connection.

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Policy Press

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152922070X

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Women and the People

Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Helen Rogers

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Women and the People

Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Helen Rogers

Based on extensive new research investigating the range of women’s involvement in early nineteenth-century popular politics, mid-Victorian reform and the women’s movements of the late century, Women and the People makes an original intervention in the historiography of the radical tradition by exploring the interconnections of populism, liberalism and feminism. Attending to authorship, the study argues that the representational forms adopted by radicals were as important as the content of what they said in shaping their self-perception, their construction of others, and the reception of their ideas. In fiction, poetry and autobiography, as well as in political writing, speeches and journalism, women reworked radical conventions and imagined new models of political identity, participation and authority. Though, in general, radicals appealed to ’the people’, women were often positioned as the suffering objects of reform rather than as the agents of change. By showing how they challenged or reinforced these conceptions of ’women’ and ’the people’, the book contends that radical women invoked alternative communities of sex, class and nation, and helped to remake and discipline the political sphere, as they strove to make it their own.

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Routledge

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1315318008

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9781315318004

The Sleepwalker

By: Helen McCloy

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The Sleepwalker

By: Helen McCloy

Marian Tansey appears to be living a happy life. She has great friends, a job in a thrift shop, and she has just bought a new car. She may even be falling in love with Dick Lang, who sold it to her. She could be on top of the world, but there are a few clouds in the sky. There is a mystery surrounding the car. It has been 'borrowed' during the night by someone unknown. But most of all there's the frightening fact that, although she hasn't admitted it to any of her friends or colleagues, Marian lost her memory a year or two ago and has no idea who she is. Then, there is a murder ...

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Orion

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1471912833

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Everybody Has to be Somebody

A Play

By: Helen McAvity

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Everybody Has to be Somebody

A Play

By: Helen McAvity

THE STORY: Having been a stage mother when her daughter, Frances, was pursuing an acting career, Maggie has now become a stage grandmother; running her daughter's household; spoiling her teenage grandson and his friends; and treating her son-in-law

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822203669

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9780822203667

A/AS Level Geography for AQA Student Book

By: Ann Bowen,Andy Day,Victoria Ellis,Alan Parkinson,Paul Hunt,Claire Kyndt,Rebecca Kitchen,Garrett Nagle,Nicola Walshe,Helen Young

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A/AS Level Geography for AQA Student Book

By: Ann Bowen,Andy Day,Victoria Ellis,Alan Parkinson,Paul Hunt,Claire Kyndt,Rebecca Kitchen,Garrett Nagle,Nicola Walshe,Helen Young

A new series of full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2016 A/AS Level Geography specification. This full-colour Student Book covers all core and optional units for the AQA AS and A Level Geography specification for first teaching from September 2016. Students are encouraged to develop links between physical and human topics, understand systems, processes, and acquire geographical skills. Helping to bridge the gap from GCSE to A Level, it also provides support for fieldwork skills and for the geographical investigation at A Level. A 'Maths for geographers' feature helps students develop and apply their mathematical and statistical skills, and a range of assessment-style questions support students in developing their exam skills.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316606325

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Modern Food, Moral Food

Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century

By: Helen Zoe Veit

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Modern Food, Moral Food

Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century

By: Helen Zoe Veit

American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rules surrounding eating, while reformers were working to reshape the diets of immigrants and the poor. And by the time of World War I, the country's first international aid program was bringing moral advice about food conservation into kitchens around the country. In Modern Food, Moral Food, Helen Zoe Veit argues that the twentieth-century food revolution was fueled by a powerful conviction that Americans had a moral obligation to use self-discipline and reason, rather than taste and tradition, in choosing what to eat. Veit weaves together cultural history and the history of science to bring readers into the strange and complex world of the American Progressive Era. The era's emphasis on science and self-control left a profound mark on American eating, one that remains today in everything from the ubiquity of science-based dietary advice to the tenacious idealization of thinness.

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UNC Press Books

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1469607719

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Decades of Caring

The Big Sister Story

By: Helen Caister Robinson

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Decades of Caring

The Big Sister Story

By: Helen Caister Robinson

Decades of Caring: The Big Sister Storyis a record of the trials, errors, and accomplishments of an organization of Toronto women who have carried a torch for youth through good years and bad from 1912 to the present time. The author has endeavoured to set out those facts which have shaped the growth of the Big Sister Association from a small group of concerned women, inspired by th emotional concept of being a Big Sister to socially deprived young persons, to the present day organization which sponsors the many faceted youth agency, Huntley Youth Services.

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Dundurn

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0919670342

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9780919670341

Grandma's Brown County Cookbook

By: Helen Ayers

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Grandma's Brown County Cookbook

By: Helen Ayers

This book was compiled from the recipes the author has grown to love as her small family of two sons grew up. She went from knowing how to bake a pone of cornbread (and that was all) when she married to being able to prepare many tasty dishes of country foods over the years. She believes in using the freshest ingredients she can find for her foods and prepares the best dishes she can to feed her husband and family. Always married to an avid gardener, if his garden fails because of heavy rains or something, she has her husband—who does all the grocery shopping—spend a lot of time in the perimeters of every grocery looking for the healthy fruits and vegetables which she then prepares for the two of them now that the sons are grown and gone. Except for cans of beans and tomatoes that she uses to make chili, almost every dish she prepares is made from scratch using only fresh or frozen vegetables. Do not look for fancy cooking in this book because you will not find fancy. What you will find is good down-home healthy recipes which do not take a lot of time to prepare. Every young person leaving home should take a copy of this book with them so they do not have to live on fast food and will find the joy of eating like home cooking. She can only wish now that she had access to this type of cooking when she was learning to be a wife and mother.

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AuthorHouse

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150495646X

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The Materiality of Nothing

Exploring Our Everyday Relationships with Objects Absent and Present

By: Helen Holmes

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The Materiality of Nothing

Exploring Our Everyday Relationships with Objects Absent and Present

By: Helen Holmes

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Drawing on over 15 years of original, empirical research, it builds on growing research on the everyday, and unites the established field of material culture and materiality with emerging sociological studies exploring notions of nothing and the unmarked. The chapters cover topics such as lost property, museum curation, plastic microfibres, thrift, music and even hair, illuminating how invisible and intangible materials conjure memories, meanings and identities, inextricably binding us to other people, places and things. In turn, the book also engages with issues of sustainability and consumption, raising questions regarding society’s increasing need for material accumulation and posing some alternatives.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000917940

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9781000917949

On Uncle Sam's Water Wagon

500 Recipes for Delicious Drinks, Which Can Be Made at Home

By: Helen Moore

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On Uncle Sam's Water Wagon

500 Recipes for Delicious Drinks, Which Can Be Made at Home

By: Helen Moore

Written in response to the worldwide Prohibition movement, Helen Moore's 1919 work provides readers with recipes for 500 drinks that can be made without the use of alcohol.

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Applewood Books

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1429010479

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The Secret Life of Cities

Social reproduction of everyday life

By: Helen Jarvis,Andy C. Pratt,Peter Cheng-Chong Wu

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The Secret Life of Cities

Social reproduction of everyday life

By: Helen Jarvis,Andy C. Pratt,Peter Cheng-Chong Wu

Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged through cities and regions, but less attention has been paid to the secret life of cities, and the changing nature of everyday life in the wake of such changes.This book challenges current research and policy agendas recommending spatial concentration and relocation as a solution to the problems of environmental sustainability and social dislocation. Instead, this book highlights the key linkages between social and environmental problems, it argues that neither are likely to be resolved with a simple spatial fix. The book draws attention to local contexts of contemporary urbanisation emphasising consideration of policy making from the perspective of the household as a key unit of analysis in identifying links between labour and housing markets, transport and leisure.This book draws upon detailed household interviews about the daily experience of life in a global city. It illustrates the dilemmas and solutions that people routinely find in order to go on in their lives. It shows that these local fixes that are managed at the level of the household work in spite of, and sometimes against, existing policies aimed at sustainability. It concludes that policy making needs to be radically overhauled in order to address the integrated nature of people's everyday lives.

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Routledge

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1317904540

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The Oysterback Tales

By: Helen Chappell

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The Oysterback Tales

By: Helen Chappell

Once you find yourself in Oysterback, you may never want to leave. Nothing beats Desiree Grinch's corn soup at the Blue Crab Tavern. There's never a wait at The Curl Up 'N Dye Salon de Beaute. In season, you can buy your produce (as you pay your respects) at Dreedle's Funeral Parlor. There's bingo every Tuesday at the V.E.D.

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JHU Press

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0801880602

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9780801880605

England in the Eighteen-Eighties

Toward a Social Basis for Freedom

By: Helen Merrell Lynd

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England in the Eighteen-Eighties

Toward a Social Basis for Freedom

By: Helen Merrell Lynd

Amid the current political disputes regarding the character of the Victorian period in England whether economic individualism or social responsibility were the major characteristics of the time this fine, scholarly study, first published in 1945, is again available to provide a benchmark by which to assess the political claims. The scholarly and political value of the work is clear; it is deeply researched, clearly written, and establishes guidelines for contemporary social action and thought. In his perceptive introduction to this edition, Pomper points to lessons the book provides for contemporary politics: the values of careful documentation and research that characterized the work and enhanced the results of Fabianism; the need for a skeptical optimism in social thought; and an understanding of the contrasting fate of socialism in Great Britain and the United States.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412822610

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Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan

By: Helen Hardacre

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Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan

By: Helen Hardacre

The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming.

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240

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Princeton University Press

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0691221561

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9780691221564

Movable Markets

Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City

By: Helen Tangires

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Movable Markets

Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City

By: Helen Tangires

The untold story of America's wholesale food business. In nineteenth-century America, municipal deregulation of the butcher trade and state-incorporated market companies gave rise to a flourishing wholesale trade. In Movable Markets, Helen Tangires describes the evolution of the American wholesale marketplace for fresh food, from its development as a bustling produce district in the heart of the city to its current indiscernible place in food industrial parks on the urban periphery. Tangires follows the middlemen, those intermediaries who became functional necessities as the railroads accelerated the process of delivering perishable food to the city. Tracing their rise and decline in the wake of a deregulated food economy, she asks: How did these people, who occupied such key roles as food distributors and suppliers to the retail trade, end up exiled to urban outskirts? Moving into the early twentieth century, she explains how progressive city planners and agricultural economists responded to anxieties about the high cost of living, traffic congestion, and disruptions in the food supply by questioning the centrality, aging infrastructure, and organizational structure of wholesale markets. Tangires combines economic and cultural history by analyzing popular literature, innovative scholarship, and USDA publications. Detailing the legal, physical, and organizational means behind the complex exodus of food wholesaling from the urban core, Tangires also reveals how the trade adjusted to life beyond the city limits as it created new channels of distribution, product lines, and markets. Readers interested in US history, city and regional planning history, food history, and public policy, as well as anyone curious about the disappearance of the central produce district as a major component of the city, will find Movable Markets a fascinating read.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421427478

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9781421427478

Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts

By: Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin

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Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts

By: Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin

This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty new entries have been added including: Cosmopolitanism Development Fundamentalism Nostalgia Post-colonial cinema Sustainability Trafficking World Englishes. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts remains an essential guide for anyone studying this vibrant field.

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Routledge

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1135039747

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9781135039745

The BBC National Short Story Award 2017

By: Cynan Jones,Helen Oyeyemi,Will Eaves,Jenni Fagan,Benjamin Markovits

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The BBC National Short Story Award 2017

By: Cynan Jones,Helen Oyeyemi,Will Eaves,Jenni Fagan,Benjamin Markovits

There is in the short story, at its most characteristic, something we do not often find in the novel, Frank O’Connor wrote, ‘an intense awareness of human loneliness.’ The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust 2017 all feature characters that are disconnected, willingly or unwillingly, from those around them: a mysterious out-of-towner is shunned by her new colleagues; a grieving husband retreats into his old compulsion for hoarding; a promising academic risks his career for a casual liaison with a younger man. And whether we follow the characters’ need to be alone – like the fisherman drifting dangerously far from shore – or trace it back to its root – like the daughter burying her violent father – what we find there is always unexpected. Jenni Fagan, Benjamin Markovits and Helen Oyeyemi, three of Granta’s recent ‘20 under 40’, are joined by critic and novelist, Will Eaves and Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize winner, Cynan Jones on the 2017 shortlist. This year’s shortlist was selected by authors Eimear McBride, Jon McGregor and Sunjeev Sahota, as well as BBC Radio’s Di Speirs and acclaimed novelist Joanna Trollope who chaired the panel and introduces the collection.

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104

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Comma Press

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1910974358

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9781910974353

Performance and Participation

Practices, Audiences, Politics

By: Anna Harpin,Helen Nicholson

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Performance and Participation

Practices, Audiences, Politics

By: Anna Harpin,Helen Nicholson

This edited collection gathers together leading voices in theatre and performance studies to debate the politics of participation and find points of connection across a range of performative forms – including community theatre, live art, applied theatre, one-to-one performance and marathon running. Arranged in three sections, 'Recognising Participation', 'Labours of Participation', and 'Authoring Participation', the book raises productive questions about how and why audiences are encouraged to participate in creating the artistic work. This intersection, the authors suggest, blurs the boundaries between producer and consumer, promising modes of engagement that are at once political, social and aesthetic. Applying theoretical ideas to concrete discussions of practice, this is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of applied theatre, political and socially-engaged theatre, participatory theatre making and performance studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137393181

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Reacting to Reality Television

Performance, Audience and Value

By: Beverley Skeggs,Helen Wood

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Reacting to Reality Television

Performance, Audience and Value

By: Beverley Skeggs,Helen Wood

As reality television extends into the experiences of the everyday, it makes dramatic and often shocking the mundane aspects of our intimate relations. This book addresses the impact of this endless opening out of intimacy as an entertainment trend that erodes the traditional boundaries between spectator and performer.

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Routledge

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0415693705

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The Philosophy of the State and the Practice of Welfare

The Writings of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet

By: Helen Bosanquet

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The Philosophy of the State and the Practice of Welfare

The Writings of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet

By: Helen Bosanquet

Unemployment, poverty and the role of the state were themes which structured the discourse of social theory and the developing social legislation in Britain at the end of the Victorian period and the early twentieth century. This collection examines the neglected contribution of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet to that contemporary maelstrom of ideas about the condition of the people, the process of social reform and the practice of social work. Like their contemporaries Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the Bosanquets were a significant partnership integrating philosophy and practice, theory and action. Bernard Bosanquet, the Idealist philosopher, is best known for his study The Philosophical Theory of the State. His wife Helen, economist and social worker, was a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws (1905-9) and between 1909 and 1921, editor of the Charity Organisation Review. Themselves selective supporters of state welfare schemes, they helped to re-fashion the Charity Organisation Society away from its nineteenth century individualism by their advocacy of organic social collectivism. But character, self development and responsibility remained central tenets of their welfare programme. This collection re-publishes most of the Bosanquets' principal books and articles relating to the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare. The development of their ideas in the context of their own time, and their relevance to current debates in the theory and practice of welfare, forms the basis of a substantial introduction by David Gladstone, the series editor. This Volume looks at Social and Economic Conditions and the standard of life.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040129706

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