Modern Britain Since 1906
Subtitle: A Reader (Tauris History Readers)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: December 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781860642982
Subjects: British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; 20th century; History - General History; Great Britain - History - 20th Century; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Modern - 20th Century; History / Great Britain; Economic conditions; Great Britain; History; Politics and government
First sentence: The emergence of state intervention, through the medium of the Liberal social reforms of 1905-14, was the most important development in the decade before the First World War, largely because it challenged both the local control and the philanthropic efforts (particularly by the Charity Organisation Society) that had been the basis of British social policy until the early twentieth century.