17. ‘A Great Change in Manners’
Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew
in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
‘A Great Change in Manners‘ draws attention to the remarkable order and balance of British society between the 1850s and 1890s. Despite massive industrial and social change, crime fell in ...
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6. Wealth, Population, and Social Change in the Later Middle Ages
John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths
in Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction
The main source of wealth in the Middle Ages in England was the land. From this wealth sprang the prosperity of individuals, institutions, and the Crown. The greatest landowners were the ...
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12. A Shifting Population: Town and Country
Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew
in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
‘A Shifting Population: Town and Country’ outlines the effects of urbanization on Britain. Great urban centres, unmatched in the rest of Europe, grew up in manufacturing areas. Towns, ...
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Eugenics: A Very Short introduction
Philippa Levine
The word “eugenics” was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction ...
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2. Industrial Development
Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew
in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
‘Industrial Development’ summarizes the preconditions for and the components of industrialization. Britain's position relative to France improved massively on the strength of qualitative ...
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1. Origins
Robin Attfield
in Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
For centuries we have been changing the natural world around us, through hunting and farming; building, mining, and engineering; and travelling and trading. But we can no longer take it for ...
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3. The age of democracy, 1816–44
Donald T. Critchlow
in American Political History: A Very Short Introduction
From 1816 to 1844, the United States underwent an economic, political, and social transformation resulting in a nation of twenty-four states and three territories with a population of ...
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7. Objectivity in numbers?
Stephen Gaukroger
in Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction
‘Objectivity in numbers?’ considers the connection between objectivity and numerical presentation. Logical positivists believed that if scientific theories were to be truly objective, they ...
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1. Reflections on the Revolutions
Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew
in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
‘Reflections on the Revolutions’ surveys the perceptions of the age of industrial and political revolution. Industrialization was not a concept that people were conscious of until the ...
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2. Some key concepts
Robin Attfield
in Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
‘Some key concepts’ focuses on the key concepts widely held and pivotal to thinking about environmental ethics. It begins with the concept of nature, ways in which people seek to relate ...
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1. Society and Economic Life
John Morrill
in Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction
‘British Society and Economic Life’ considers the significant changes in conditions in the seventeenth century. Before 1650, relentless population growth resulted in subsistence crises, ...
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1. Unregulated immigration and its opponents from Colonial America to the mid-nineteenth century
David A. Gerber
in American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
Immigration has been an issue that the United States has always had to face. American law and policy has evolved gradually over immigration and citizenship. In the American context, there ...
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4. Mass population movements and resettlement, 1820–1924
David A. Gerber
in American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
How did immigration and resettlement affect the people within the massive migration cohorts? The processes of mass international migration happened within the historical context of the ...
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5. Mass population movements and resettlement, 1965 to the present
David A. Gerber
in American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
The 1970s saw for the United States a new wave of immigration. In 2005, the United States was the largest recipient of international migrants. ‘Mass population movements and resettlement, ...
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4. The Economy in the Early Middle Ages
John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths
in Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction
In the eleventh century, England was predominantly an agrarian economy. Over 90 per cent of the people lived in the country. ‘The Economy in the Early Middle Ages’ looks at the economic ...
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3. Industry and Idleness
Paul Langford
in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
‘Industry and Idleness’ provides an overview of the social and economic changes of the mid-century. Improved communications along turnpike roads enabled the growth of internal markets, ...
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American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
David A. Gerber
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction examines the many legal efforts to curb immigration and to define who is and is not an American. It looks at immigration from ...
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Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction is an account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 ...
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Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction
John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths
Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British ...
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3. Eugenic reproduction
Philippa Levine
in Eugenics: A Very Short introduction
Driven by the dream of improving humanity down the generations, the management of reproduction was the core activity for which eugenicists strived. Although they had many different visions, ...
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