The Making of Modern English Society from 1850. by Roebuck, Janet - 1973

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New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 0x0x0. Top edge of jacket lightly bumped. 1973 Hard Cover. xii, 205 pp. In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century a variety of forces emerged which changed society in many profound and subtle ways. The Making of Modern English Society from 1850 uses the findings of recent historical and sociological research contemporary literature, and a wide range of historical sources to form a clear picture of the main patterns of the social changes which took place in this turbulent period. Jane Roebuck shows how in these hundred years the whole fabric of society altered more rapidly and radically than in ant preceding century. She gives and account of the dramatic change which occurred in all spheres of national liked. She demonstrates how the drift towards socialism, which began in the nineteenth century, gathered momentum in the twentieth and how massive social chance was… Read More