Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including family breakdown, addiction, mental instability, crime, obesity, inequality, economic insecurity, and declining trust. Avner Offer argues that well-being has lagged ...
In this new interpretation of the First World War, the author weaves together the economic and social history of the English-speaking world, the Pacific basin, and Germany, with the development of food production and consumption. He argues that global changes in agrarian production paved the way for the war and affected the experience and ...
Victorian-style public/private standoffs in the United Kingdom have emerged again, with prudential crises in pensions, education, health, communications, and transport. Professor Offer's text constitutes a timely intervention in current debates about the role of the private sector in providing public services, whilst focusing on the historical ...
Is wealth the same as happiness? How is the quality of life to be evaluated, measured, and most importantly, achieved? The authors provide provocative and engaging answers to these questions and many more, in this new, multidisciplinary and practical approach to an important area of social research. Taking the individual as the point of departure, ...
Land and house property is part of the core experiences and institutions of Victorian and Edwardian England. This book begins with the law and institutions of land transfer. it provides estimates of landed property and mortgage debt, and describes urban property markets and relation of local and national taxation. Liberal and Conservative ...
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