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      The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis

      Peter Mandler

      Who were the poor of the world’s first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in…

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      The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair

      Peter Mandler

      Traces the surprisingly varied history of ideas amongst the English about their own ‘national character’ over the centuries. This book draws on lectures, sermons, political speeches, journalism, popular and scholarly…

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      Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain

      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…

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      Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Liberals 1830-1852

      Peter Mandler

      Challenges the view that there was a smooth and inevitable progression towards liberalism in early nineteenth-century England. This book examines the argument used by the high Whigs that the landed…

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      The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home

      Peter Mandler

      In this account of the changing fortunes and status of the stately homes of England over the past two centuries, Peter Mandler merges social, cultural, artistic and political perspectives and…

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      Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

      Peter Mandler

      Part intellectual biography, part cultural history, and part history of the human sciences, this book is a reminder that the Second World War and the Cold War were a clash…

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      After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain

      These essays explore how ten twentieth century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt familiar Victorian values to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture.

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      After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain

      Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt familiar Victorian values to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and…

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      From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940

      This book looks at the effect of the British Empire on the cultures and civilisations of the peoples it ruled by considering the impact of empire on the idea of…

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      Great Philanthropists: Wealth and Charity in the Modern World 1815-1945

      Provides an over-arching view of the development, goals and achievements of philanthropy around the world over the ‘long nineteenth century’, the period in which organized philanthropy became a global movement…

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      The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War

      Peter Mandler (Professor of Modern Cultural History and Bailey Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge)

      The story of the revolutionary transformation of the British educational system in the second half of the 20th century from a rigid hierarchy for a minority, to a fundamental right…

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      Geldpolitische Reaktionsfunktionen Und Makrooekonomische Unsicherheit

      Martin Mandler

      Reworked version of the Author’s thesis (doctoral)–Justus Liebig-Universiteat Giessen, 2009.

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