Author: John Thomas BECHERPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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The Constitution of Friendly Societies Upon Legal and Scientific Principles, Exemplified by the Rules and Tables of Calculations Adopted Under the Advice and Approbation of William Morgan and William Frend for the Government of the Friendly Institution at Southwell. Together with Observations on the Rise and Progress, as Well as on the Management and Mismanagement of Friendly Societies ... Second Edition
Author: John Thomas BECHERPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Lumley's bibliographical advertiser
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Constitution of Friendly Societies
Author: John Thomas BecherPublisher:
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Category : Fraternal organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914
Author: S. CorderyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230598048
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history. It establishes the central role of the Friendly Societies in the political activism of British workers, changing understandings of masculinity and femininity, the ritualised expression of social tensions and the origins of the welfare state.
Trust in Numbers
Author: Theodore M. PorterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
Cannibals All!
Author: George FitzhughPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Cato's Letters
Author: John TrenchardPublisher:
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Electoral Engineering
Author: Pippa NorrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521536714
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.
Trust Among Strangers
Author: Penelope IsmayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108472524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"Friendly Societies in Modern Britain"--
The Social Life of Coffee
Author: Brian CowanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
