Title: Social Investigation and Rural England, 1870-1914
Description: "This book explores the theory and practice of social investigation in rural England in the period 1870-1914. It shows the extent to which a developing 'passion for inquiry' drew to the English countryside a wide range of social investigators concerned with such issues as agricultural trade unionism, rural depopulation, rural poverty, the condition of rural housing and the land question." "At the same time Social Investigation and Rural England makes a significant contribution to the rural history of the period, by illustrating how social and political conflicts in the English countryside influenced the processes of information-gathering by social investigators, and how the rural population responded to their activities."--Jacket.
Subjects: Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek, Rural conditions, Agrarische maatschappij, Social surveys, History, Great britain, rural conditions, Great britain, history, 19th century, Great britain, history, 20th century