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The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France
1st Edition
By Colin Jones
January 19, 2026
Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, ...
The Child in Primitive Society
1st Edition
By Nathan Miller
January 19, 2026
First published in 1928, The Child in Primitive Society examines the place of the child in the history of the less developed societies reaching back as close to social “origins” as is possible. The purpose here is not to enquire into the inner processes of learning, habit formation and ...
The Co-operative Movement in the Punjab
1st Edition
By Ata Ullah
January 19, 2026
First published in 1937, The Co-operative Movement in the Punjab presents a sketch of the development and working of the co-operative movement in the region in its various aspects. With its vast and fertile fields, it's sturdy and assimilative manpower, it's beautiful rivers and its marvelous canal...
The Collective Spirit: An Idealistic Theory of Evolution
1st Edition
By Viggo Cavling
January 19, 2026
The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various interpretations, before endeavouring to formulate an idealist theory of evolution....
The Conservatives: A History from Their Origins to 1965
1st Edition
Edited
By Lord Butler
January 19, 2026
First published in 1977, The Conservatives has been edited and designed by Lord Bulter, who has contributed much to the ethos and spirit of modern Conservatism. He has brought together a quartet of eminent modern historians, each of whom handles a significant period in the party’s and the nation’s ...
The Corporate Paradox: Power and Control in the Business Franchise
1st Edition
By Alan Felstead
January 19, 2026
First published in 1993, The Corporate Paradox is the first major, in-depth study of the franchise relationship and how it functions. While past debates have focused on the question: ‘What do bosses do?’, we are now being asked: ‘Who really is the boss?’. Since the late 1970s the emergence of ...
The Countryside: Planning and Change
1st Edition
By Mark Blacksell, Andrew Gilg
January 19, 2026
The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making. It looks at the underlying reasons for change in the rural environment first and ...
The Criminalisation of Stalking: Constructing the Problem and Evaluating the Solution
1st Edition
By Emily Finch
January 19, 2026
First published in 2001, The Criminalisation of Stalking fills a much-needed gap by drawing upon a range of methodologies to present a thorough and comprehensive examination of the way in which stalking became perceived as a pressing and prevalent social problem in need of legal intervention, as ...
The Decline of Neutrality 1914–41: With Special Reference to the United States and the Northern Neutrals
1st Edition
By Nils Ørvik
January 19, 2026
The Decline of Neutrality (1971) examines the impartial, disinterested neutrality as it was codified in the Hague Convention in 1907 and the changes the concept underwent from the beginning of World War I in 1914 up to Pearl Habor, December 1941. It deals with the different stages of neutrality ...
The Degradation of Work?: Skill, De-Skilling and the Labour Process
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Wood
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1982 and now reissued with a new Preface by Stephen Wood the contributors of this book discuss the issues surrounding the organization of labour. They use insights from industrial sociology, historical research and Marxist-Feminist debates. In particular they stress that ...
The Development of Sacramentalism
1st Edition
By J. W. C. Wand
January 19, 2026
First published in 1928, The Development of Sacramentalism traces the history of the fundamental presuppositions upon which the doctrine of sacraments is built from primitive religions, through the Old Testament and the Mystery Cults. This book will be of interest to students of history and ...
The Diary of Dudley Ryder 1715–1716
1st Edition
Edited
By William Matthews
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1939, The Diary of Dudley Ryder 1715–1716, comprises an early diary and a few related notes by Sir Dudley Ryder when he was a student at the Middle Temple. The diary is a fascinating record of the character and life of a moderately well-to-do student of Nonconformist ...