"Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tyler, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victori…
By moving beyond consideration of the welfare legislation enacted in the 1940s, this book explains how government aid was actually provided in the new British welfare state created just after World War II. Revealing dimensions of social policy that have been neglected by scholar…
Focusing on the politicized mechanisms of welfare distribution in post-World War II Britain, this study demonstrates how gender and race determined the quality and quantity of benefits received by Britons seeking state aid. Scholars of public policy, law, and political history w…
