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Theory and Antitheory in Nineteenth-Century British Social History - Boys Together. By John Chandos. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. 412. $29.95 (cloth). - Abolitionists and Working-Class Problems in the Age of Industrialization. By Betty Fladeland. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv + 232. $22.50 (cloth). - Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies. By David Garland. Aldershot: Gower Publishing Co., 1985. Pp. x + 297. $41.95 (cloth). - The Victorian Clergy. By Alan Haig. London: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. 376. $33.00 (cloth). - Drink and Sobriety in Victorian Wales. By W. R. Lambert. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1983; distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Pp. xiv + 294. $33.50 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

George Behlmer
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1: England's Foreign Relations , January 1987 , pp. 123 - 132
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2 Thompson, E. P., The Making of the English Working Class (London, 1963), pp. 10–11Google Scholar.

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8 The best general discussion of Victorian moral reform is in Harrison, Brian, “State Intervention and Moral Reform in Nineteenth-Century England,” in Pressure from Without in Early Victorian England, ed. Hollis, Patricia (London, 1974)Google Scholar. On the theme of respectability in working-class culture, see Laqueur, Thomas, Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780–1850 (New Haven, Conn., 1976)Google Scholar.

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13 Another recent study that deals with many of the same issues is Honey, J. R. de S., Tom Brown's Universe: The Development of the Victorian Public School (London, 1977)Google Scholar.

14 Russell, Anthony, The Clerical Profession (London, 1980)Google Scholar, takes precisely this approach in discussing eleven roles associated with the early nineteenth-century Anglican clergyman. Two recent works that treat “professionalization” with greater conceptual rigor are Duman, Daniel, The Judicial Bench in England, 1727–1875: The Reshaping of a Professional Elite (London, 1982)Google Scholar; and Engel, A. J., From Clergyman to Don: The Rise of the Academic Profession in Nineteenth-Century Oxford (Oxford, 1983)Google Scholar. The best survey of the subject remains Reader, W. J., Professional Men: The Rise of the Professional Classes in Nineteenth-Century England (London, 1966)Google Scholar.

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19 Garland chooses the term “penality” to refer “to the whole of the penal complex, including its sanctions, institutions, discources and representations” (p. x).

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