"In Victorian times business was seen as a romance and books by the score portrayed the lives of entrepreneurs both as…"

"It is in the connection of the conflict with the Yankee...that we can perhaps best understand the South's unusual pro…"

"The colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and the acquisition of South Africa in the decline of Holland, created…"

"During the last half of the 19th century there was a marked fall in the crime rate with a substantial decrease in bot…"

"British rates of recorded crime fell as markedly in the latter part of the 19th century as they have risen since. The…"

"[A]n earlier generation of Britons succeeded in changing the character of their people and producing a diminution in …"

"The postulate that there was a link of some kind between the rise of the Sunday school and the original decline of de…"

"Take another look at the graph showing illegitimacy from the 1500s up to the present, and focus on the period from 18…"

"No one will ever understand Victorian England who does not appreciate that among highly civilized...countries it was …"

"One thing that strikes me when I think of Booth is the nonsense that is talked today about the poverty of the Victori…"