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FROM REFORMATION TO IMPROVEMENT
PUBLIC WELFARE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND |
| By: |
Paul Slack |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£135.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198206615 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198206613 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 September, 1998 |
| Pages: |
188 |
| Description: |
Paul Slack's incisive analysis shows how the English came to believe between 1500 and 1740 that piecemeal improvement was more likely to be achieved than total social reformation. He examines social policy and institutions such as workhouses and hospitals in order to illustrate how contemporaries tried to shape their social and moral environment, and how they defined the notion of `welfare'. |
| Synopsis: |
Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale reformation were replaced by more specific schemes for improvement. Paul Slack's analysis of this decisive shift of focus, derived from his 1995 Ford Lectures, examines its intellectual and political roots. He describes the policies and rhetoric of the commonwealthsmen, godly magistrates, Stuart monarchs, Interregnum projectors, and early Hanoverian philanthropists, and the institutions - notably hospitals and workhouses - which they created or reformed. In a series of thematic chapters, each linked to a chronological period, he brings together what might seem to have been disparate notions and activities, and shows that they expressed a sequence of coherent approaches towards public welfare. The result is a strikingly original study, which throws fresh light on the formation of civic consciousness and the emergence of a civil society in early modern England. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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