Mandler Peter (editor). Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006. 272 pages. Language: English.

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.

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