A social and economic history of Britain : 1760-1955 / by Gregg, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…Part I: The rise of the middle classes -- Part II: The rise of the working classes -- Part III: A century of social reform…”

A social and economic history of Britain : 1960-1965 / by Gregg, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…Part I: The rise of the middle classes -- Part II: The rise of the working classes -- Part III: A century of social reform -- Part IV: The age of affluence…”

The liberal tradition : from Fox to Keynes /

Table of Contents: “…The extension of democracy -- 3. Social reform -- 4. The government and the national economy -- 5. …”

The momentum for change, Lewis T. Preston at the World Bank, 1991-95 : addresses and statements / by Preston, Lewis Thompson, 1926-1995

Table of Contents: “…., November 30, 1993 -- To the International Conference on Population and Development Cairo, September 6, 1994 -- Regional Challenges: On transition economies: to the Bretton Woods Committee June 15, 1992 -- To the Inter-American Development Bank Conference on Social Reform and Poverty Washington, D.C., February 10, 1993 -- On Sub-Saharan Africa: from the Financial Times September 27, 1993 -- To the Conference on the Middle East Peace Process Washignton, D.C., October 1, 1993 -- Development in the post-cold war era: To the Board of Governors Bangkok, October 15, 1991 -- To the Board of Governors Washignton, D.C., September 22, 1992 -- To the Foreign Policy Association New York, March 25, 1993.…”

The future of architecture, since 1889 / by Cohen, Jean-Louis, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Architecture's expanded field -- Shed to rails: the dominion of steel -- The search for modern form -- Domestic innovation and tectonic expression -- American rediscovered, tall and wide -- The challenge of the metropolis -- New production, new aesthetic -- In search of a language: from classicism to Cubism -- The Great War and its side effects -- Expressionism in Weimar Germany and the Netherlands -- Return to order in Paris -- Dada, De Stijl, and Mies: from subversiveness to elementarism -- Architectural education in turmoil -- Architecture and revolution in Russia -- The architecture of social reform -- Internationalization, its networks and spectacles -- Futurism and rationalism in Fascist Italy -- The spectrum of classicisms and traditionalisms -- North American modernities -- Functionalism and machine aesthetics -- Modern languages conquer the world -- COlonial experiences and new nationalism -- Architecture of a total war -- Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance -- The fatal crisis of the modern movement and the alternatives -- Le Corbusier reinvented and reinterpreted -- The shape of American hegemony -- Repression and diffusion of modernism -- Toward new utopias -- Between elitism and populism: alternative architecture -- After 1968: architecture for the city -- The postmodern season -- From regionalism to critical internationalism -- The neo-futurist optimism of high tech -- Architecture's outer boundaries -- Vanishing points.…”
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