Signed by Peter Townsend to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Single crease to spine and tiny crease to lower corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 214pp.

A detailed analysis of the direction taken in British society within living memory, and how these changes have been affected by patterns of growth, liberal and Marxist political theories, tradition and the power of the State. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.