The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 17501950
Contributors: Alan Armstrong (Contributor); C. Baber (Contributor); P. L. Garside (Contributor); D. W. Howell (Contributor); F. M. L. Thompson (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 27, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780521438162
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Social history; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Sociology; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - England; Europe - Gt. Britain/England; General; Western Europe - General; Great Britain--Social conditions; Great Britain--Social conditions Great Britai; History / Great Britain; History-Western Europe - General; Social Science-General
First sentence: A regional approach to social history obviously works primarily within geographical boundaries, and it is the long accumulation of the effects of topography and its influence on patterns of settlement and administrative and economic structures which is at the root of those regional identities that can be observed through the many superimposed layers of national and international forces, religious and class divisions, and inward and outward migration.