J L Hammond: 8 books

Originally published in 1964, in this work of wisdom, originality, and power, the great Liberal scholar, J. L. Hammond, explores and expounds Gladstone's attempt to secure justice for Ireland against the rising tide of English Imperialist feeling. The origins of the Irish Church crisis of 1869, of...

The first installment of a pioneering trilogy that would include The Town Labourer (1917) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), this 1911 volume established the Hammonds as revisionist historians whose meticulous research and persuasive prose not only illuminated the past but could influence contemporary social debates.  Here the authors focused on the effects of enclosure measures on the rural poor.

In this 1917 volume, the second installment in a pioneering trilogy that includes The Village Labourer (1911) and The Skilled Labourer (1919), the authors shift from agricultural laborers to the urban working class. Here the Hammonds identify class exploitation as a pernicious effect of the Industrial Revolution and advocate governmental regulation as a fair solution.

In this 1919 volume, the final installment in a pioneering trilogy that began with The Village Labourer (1911) and continued in The Town Labourer (1917), the authors focus on the obsolescence of skilled labor in the face of technological change during the Industrial Revolution.  As in the previous two works, the Hammonds view their subject through a lens of class exploitation.

Originally published in 1923, this book covers the career of Lord Shaftesbury from his early career, through Peel's government and factory legislation, and onto religion and philanthropy. His name recalls great achievements in the reform of law; a powerful force in debates and contests, on the issue...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This 3-book box set is a collection of three anthologies of Dark Stories: Hides the Dark Tower In a Cat's Eye Dark Luminous Wings Hides the Dark Tower Mysterious and looming, towers and tower-like structures pierce the skies and shadow the lands. Hides the Dark Tower includes over...

Those who labored with such desire and earnestness for the selection of a theme for the textbooks for 1918–1919, that should present not only a vital but a paramount issue to the church at this time when only great realities and issues claim serious thought, chose better than they knew when they...