Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain

ISBN: 9780199271337 出版年：2011 页码：267 Oxford University Press

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.