Sick Note. A History of the British Welfare State, Hardback - ***

Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010,...

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The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800 - Patrick Joyce

Provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Strea...

Wace's "Brut" is an 1155 French verse rendering of Geoffrey of Monmouth's earlier Latin "history" of Britain, from the time of Brutus, the eponymou...

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Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical account of the British Shipbuilders corporation, first looking at this major in...

Provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced e...

Since the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to "Be All That You Can Be." But beneath ...

Reducere. Fran ois Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity--first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in E...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to be e...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter I. TrattnerOver twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has...

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Historian M. B. Synge narrates how naval power grew in importance from the 1700s onward, playing a decisive role in the victories of several nation...

Reducere. This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Chapters explore the military leadership of ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Noortje JacobsIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

DescriptionThe collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great ...

Reducere. Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island s legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revo...

As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In ...

Reducere. Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island s legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revo...

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory.Publi...

Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new collection of Captain Charles Johnson's tales of rogues includes the ver...

An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 184 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Nils Edling...

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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state.Publisher: Oxford University P...

Anatomy of a Nation explores over 800, 000 years of British identity by examining 50 documents that tell the story of what makes Britain unique: it...

A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the...

A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economyPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Thomas M. TruxesNum...

A stunningly illustrated book of extraordinary city maps, telling the story of human civilisation throughout history. From the walled city of ancie...

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Compares welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political...

The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domi...

NEW EDITION FOR THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEVERIDGE REPORT The classic and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and u...

An urgent call to reform Britain's sickness culture, offering social-not medical-solutions.

The sixth edition of this successful textbook discusses the different parts of the welfare system and, in particular, cash benefits, the health ser...

Publisher: Arkose PressIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 800Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 164 x 240 x 51Cover typ...

Reducere. WSU art graduate Ross Greening painted and wrote a one-of-a-kind record of action in WWII. He piloted a B-25 in the Doolittle Raid, was shot down o...

Bryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the Industrial Revolution onwards...

Reducere. The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive persp...