Government and expertise : specialists, administrators, and professionals, 1860-1919

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Preface Introduction Roy Macleod Part I. Ways and Means: 1. Lawyers and statutory reform in Victorian government Gavin Drewry 2. Engineers and government in nineteenth-century Britain R. A. Buchanan 3. Law and order: expertise and the Victorian Home Office Jill Pellew 4. The struggle for the occupational census, 1841-1911 Edward Higgs Part II. Professions and Powers: 5. Expertise and the dangerous trades, 1875-1900 Peter Bartrip 6. Politics and germ theories in Victorian Britain: the Metropolitan Water Commissions of 1867-9 and 1892-3 Christopher Hamlin 7. Public health and the expert: the London Medical Officers of Health, 1856-1900 Anne Hardy Part III. Imperial Administrators and the Expertise of Empire: 8. Ireland and the expertise of imperial administration D. M. Schreuder 9. The technique of government: governing mid-Victorian Australia John Eddy Part IV. Clerks, Experts and Bureaucrats: 10. The 'new woman' in the machinery of government: a spanner in the works? Meta Zimmeck 11. 'Experts' and interests: David Lloyd George and the dilemmas of the expanding state, 1906-19 John Turner 12. William Beveridge in Whitehall: maverick or mandarin? Jose Harris 13. Envoi: humanity, economy, policy: on common sense and expertise in the life of Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick Oliver MacDonagh Notes Bibliography Index.