Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on poverty and equality in the modern world, 1905-1914 / Peter Gahan.
Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on poverty and equality in the modern world, 1905-1914 / Peter Gahan.
Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on poverty and equality in the modern world, 1905-1914 / Peter Gahan.
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
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G 2017/2594
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English
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xxvi, 219 pages ; 22 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
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[2017]
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This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb's ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty 'Major Barbara' present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, wh...
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Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on poverty and equality in the modern world, 1905-1914 / Peter Gahan.
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Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
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G 2017/2594
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74VKVLvde75O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVLvde75O
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3319484419 hardcover
9783319484419 hardcover
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339.46
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991024107918302626
