The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870-1900. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Robert F. Haggard. The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870-1900. (Contributions to the Study of World History.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 2001. Pp. Vii, 209. $62.50. ISBN 0-313-31305-9.

This is an analysis of British social theory in the thirty years that end in 1900. It is concerned to locate the fundamental ideological break between liberalism and the Principles that underlie the modern welfare state and argues that this is not to be found Prior to 1900. Prior to 1900 a sizeable majority of middle and upper-class Victorians ...

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