Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain
, by Mandler, Peter- ISBN: 9780199271337 | 019927133X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/21/2006
Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of "laissez-faire," the place and the time when people were most "free" to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book, by leading historians of nineteenth-century state and society, asks to what extent that was true and, to the extent that it was, how it worked.