The penultimate volume in this series explores the effect that industrialisation, new technology, the growth of cities, and the revolutions in transport and in
The history of the family lies at the heart of the 'new social history' which has, over recent years, shifted the historiographical focus from political history
During the nineteenth century, European women of all countries and social classes experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and polit
This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs co
The 20th century, declared at its start to be the “Century of the Child” by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in an