Product Description: Very little has been written about prison staff. They have been discussed only in relation to achieving reformative and rehabilitative goals, and are frequently criticized for opposing these goals. It is natural that interest should be concentrated on the prisoner community, but the prison staff must also be examined if prisons are to be fully understood...read more

Product Description: Sabine Baring-Gould was one of the most remarkable Englishmen of the Victorian Age. Born as the heir to an estate in Devon, he received an erratic education traveling on the continent. Eventually he became a clergyman, and when thirty he married an eighteen year old mill girl, and act which attracted national interest and comment...read more

Product Description: In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revolutionary dissent, political upheaval and social protest spread throughout Europe -- and Wales was no exception. In this unique examination of British social history, J.E. Thomas focuses upon the power of the local gentry in Wales, and their relationship with the poor and potentially revolutionary population...read more

With the French Revolution raging across the channel, there was much alarm in Britain in 1797. When the French invading force landed at Fishguard in Pembrokeshire on 22 February, the last invasion of mainland Britain had begun. This book presents a study of the last invasion, assesses the contemporary evidence and sets events in their context.

Product Description: This text explores the historical roots of modern Japanese society. While paying due attention to the Japanese mainstream, it also discusses sections of the community which have traditionally been underprivileged or marginalized - most obviously women, but also minority groups and outcasts...read more

Product Description: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: The objectives of this book are to provide a new translation of Plato's M eno together with a series of studies on its philcisophical argument in the light of recent secondary literature. My translation is based mainly on the Oxford Classical Text, 1...read more