num_pages: 272
description: Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of "laissez-faire," the place and the time when people were most "free" to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book, by leading historians of nineteenth-century state and society, asks to what extent that was true and, to the extent that it was, how it worked.
language: English
title: Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain
titlecomplete: Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press