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After the Welfare State - Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854. By Christopher Hamlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 368. $64.95. - The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700–1948. By Lynn Hollen Lees. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 373. $64.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Peter Mandler
Peter Mandler*
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London Guildhall University
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , July 2000 , pp. 382 - 388
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References

1 Hamlin, Christopher, “Edwin Chadwick and the Engineers, 1842–1854: Systems and Anti-systems in the Pipe-and-Brick Sewers War,” Technology and Culture 33 (1992): 680–709CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Marston, Maurice, Sir Edwin Chadwick (London, 1925)Google Scholar; Finer, S. E., The Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick (London, 1952)Google Scholar; Brundage, Anthony, England's “Prussian Minister”: Edwin Chadwick and the Politics of Government Growth, 1832–1854 (University Park, Pa., 1988)Google Scholar. Other, more plausible components of the “standard view” against which Hamlin tilts are Lewis, R. A., Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement, 1832–1854 (London, 1952)Google Scholar; and Flinn's, M. W. edition of Chadwick's, Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (Edinburgh, 1965)Google Scholar.

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