Laurence Brockliss, Harry Smith

Gebundenes Buch

Male Professionals in Nineteenth Century Britain

Families, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Rise of the Professions

Beschreibung

Built around a representative cohort of 750 'professional men' recorded in the 1851 census, this is the first statistically-based social, cultural, and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes.

Autor

Laurence Brockliss was lecturer in history at the University of Hull from 1974 to 1984. From 1984 to 2017 he was a tutorial fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a lecturer, reader, then professor of history at the University of Oxford. His principal fields of research have been the histories of childhood, education, science and medicine in Britain and France between 1400 and 1900. He is the author, co-author and editor of eighteen books and is a fellow of the British Academy. Harry Smith is a Research Associate in the department of Geography at King's College London. He has worked on various aspects of the economic and social history of the United Kingdom in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the history of entrepreneurship, and morbidity and mortality. He has published widely on these topics as well as on urban history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9780198897552
• ISBN-10: 0198897553
• Artikelnr.: 70179587