Trust Among Strangers: Friendly Societies in Modern Britain

by Penelope Ismay

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the internal migration of a growing population transformed Britain into a 'society of strangers'. The coming and going of so many people wreaked havoc on the institutions through which Britons had previously addressed questions of collective responsibility. Poor relief, charity briefs, box clubs, and the like relied on personal knowledge of reputations for their effectiveness and struggled to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108459943
• ISBN13: 9781108459945
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"