Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic

Tim Travers

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World | nr. 49
• Samuel Smiles is best known for his book Self Help (1859), which many have assumed to be an encouragement to social and financial success. However, Sm... Lees meer

Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century

R Neale

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1972, this collection of essays by R. S. Neale focuses on authority, and the responses and challenges to it made by men and women t... Lees meer

Victorian Theatrical Burlesques

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long... Lees meer

Victorian Aspirations

Belinda Norman-Butler

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1972, Victorian Aspirations is the story of the personal struggles and achievements of Charles and Mary Booth, as remembered by the... Lees meer

The Victorian Church in Decline

Peter Marsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1969, this book studies the years of decline in the Victorian Church between 1868 and 1882. It centres on the Archbishop Tait, who ... Lees meer

South Wales and the Rising of 1839

Ivor Wilks

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1984, this book provides the first full study of the carefully planned rising of south Wales miners and ironworkers in 1839 and of ... Lees meer

The Radical Soldier's Tale

Carolyn Steedman

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier's Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his 'Memoirs', written after his retirement in 1881... Lees meer

Class and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century England

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1973. This title aims to use contemporary documents to illustrate the attitudes and relationships of working men towards each other... Lees meer

The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1977. This book records the emergence of a lower middle class in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Victorian society had always... Lees meer

The Workhouse System 1834-1929

M A Crowther

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government... Lees meer

Victorian Studies

Sharon Propas

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 2006, this work is a valuable guide for the researcher in Victorian Studies. Updated to include electronic resources, this book pro... Lees meer

Conflict and Compromise

Dennis Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban indus... Lees meer

Nonconformity in the Nineteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1972, this volume shows the potency, and the limitations of Nonconformity in shaping the beginning of modern Britain. It draws upon... Lees meer

Working-Class Stories of the 1890s

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties' li... Lees meer

Working-class Stories of the 1890s

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World | nr. 30
• First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties' li... Lees meer

Victorian Oxford

W R Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World | nr. 50
• First published in 1965, this book explores Oxford in the Victorian period, providing accounts of the development in the constitutional organisation o... Lees meer

The Workhouse System 1834-1929

M A Crowther

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government... Lees meer

Leisure in the Industrial Revolution

Hugh Cunningham

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many ... Lees meer

An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society

Geoffrey Crossick

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1978. Mid-Victorian Britain was relatively stable in comparison with the turbulent period that preceded it, and that stability is i... Lees meer

Paternalism in Early Victorian England

David Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians today call paternalism. It was an ideology which informed social attitu... Lees meer

Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic

Tim Travers

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• Samuel Smiles is best known for his book Self Help (1859), which many have assumed to be an encouragement to social and financial success. However, Sm... Lees meer

The Victorian Working Class

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• In 1849, the Morning Chronicle , a leading Victorian newspaper, embarked on a social investigation of working class life in England and Wales. Set in ... Lees meer

Nonconformity in the Nineteenth Century

David M Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
• First published in 1972, this volume shows the potency, and the limitations of Nonconformity in shaping the beginning of modern Britain. It draws upon... Lees meer

Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain

Dennis R Mills

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World | nr. 34
• First published in 1980, this book looks at the social structure of 18 th and 19 th century rural Britain. It is particularly concerned with the relat... Lees meer