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The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing
public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and
impact. Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the
meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these
perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose
of social housing in today's welfare state. The closing arguments
of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing,
designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households,
with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the
same equality of social status.
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through
episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with
union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of
secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends
from the local and regional, through to national and international
settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors
come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies,
American studies and legal history.
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through
episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with
union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of
secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends
from the local and regional, through to national and international
settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors
come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies,
American studies and legal history.
This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies
the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields,
including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature.
It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived
and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.
The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing
public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and
impact. Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the
meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these
perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose
of social housing in today's welfare state. The closing arguments
of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing,
designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households,
with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the
same equality of social status.
This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies
the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields,
including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature.
It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived
and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.
This book presents the collectors' roles as prominently as the
collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors
explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental
and transcontinental European public and private collections during
the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the
impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural
contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts
and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social
dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of
collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural,
social and political change.
This book presents the collectors' roles as prominently as the
collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors
explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental
and transcontinental European public and private collections during
the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the
impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural
contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts
and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social
dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of
collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural,
social and political change.
Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British
Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview
of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there
are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a
neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of
the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture,
1760-1960 looks first at mercy’s religious and philosophical
aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then
looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland,
during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare
from the American war of independence to the First World War. This
study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century
shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
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Mumford Memoirs
James Gregory Mumford
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R949
Discovery Miles 9 490
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Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British
Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview
of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there
are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a
neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of
the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture,
1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical
aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then
looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland,
during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare
from the American war of independence to the First World War. This
study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century
shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
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