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Liberty and authority in Victorian Britain [electronic resource] / edited by Peter Mandler.
Contributor(s): Mandler, Peter
.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xi, 254 p.).ISBN: 9780191699511 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Sociological jurisprudence -- Congresses | Liberty -- Congresses | Authority -- Congresses | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Congresses | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901 -- Congresses | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- CongressesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199271337DDC classification: 303.33094109034 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire', the place and the time when people were most 'free' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book, by historians of state and society, asks to what extent that was true and, to the extent that it was, how it worked.
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Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire', the place and the time when people were most 'free' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book, by historians of state and society, asks to what extent that was true and, to the extent that it was, how it worked.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.