The Edwardians: The Remaking of British Society

Chicago, Ill.: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. Copyright 1975. Published in 1985. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Contains 16 pages of black and white photos. * From the rear cover: "". . .Britain was at a time of critical social change; years not only of imperial power and aristocratic influence but of labour unrest, the feminist revolt and the toppling of the House of Lords. Paul Thompson's oral history shows us how near and how far Britain was to revolution in the years before World War I."" The Times Educational Supplement noted, ""Must be regarded as an important step in rescuing Edwardian history from what he rightly calls an academic limbo.. . . combines the qualities of readability, breadth of focus, willingness to explain. . . . ""Quite the most readable and illuminating piece of historical sociology to have been published in a long time.""