Poverty, philanthropy and the state Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

Poverty, philanthropy and the state Education / Educational sciences / PedagogyThis book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which change was negotiated over the twentieth century.

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Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information

It anchors us to the world and to one another

The first book on Blier published in English

his crucial role in the development of German art-song and specific aspects such as choice of key

Despite recent technological changes that have digitized many forms of artistic creation

Few studies of NWICO and WSIS have considered the continuity between the two activities – or included in the debate the crucial intermediary period between – and this book provides new insight into an issue of multilingual and multicultural importance

he sets out into the electric unpredictable night

largely neglected

This book is about how former combatants live politics as they come home from war

Karel Reisz uses recent interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the crisis of political commitment and historical displacement in the context of the 1960s and ‘70s counter-culture