Bøger i Routledge Studies in Modern British History serien

Public Health in the British Empire addresses the work of intermediary and subordinate personnel in relation to public health in the British empire. These individuals were not only essential for putting public health policy into practice, but could also impact its formation. They constitute one of the most important, and understudied topics in the history of British colonial medicine.

This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence.

This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the Empire and of domestic Britain, published in the Short Oxford History of the Modern World series, as well as his pioneering psephological study of the 1880 General Election, the essays include analyses of Anglo-Irish relations, Florence Nightingale, Canada, muckrackers, the Primrose League and prisoners of war during World War II.