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This textbook is aimed at undergraduate and diploma students across a wide range of the social sciences, with particular reference to those preparing for or inv

Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-cen

This book has become the standard text on the course of social policy and social ideas in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. To the first edition Professo

How did Britain transform itself from a nation of workhouses to one that became a model for the modern welfare state? The Winding Road to the Welfare State inve

This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).