Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit

ISBN-13: 9780199287925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 228 str.

F. K. Prochaska; Frank Prochaska

Opis

An elegantly written study that charts the relationship between Christianity and social service in Britain since the eighteenth century and presents a challenging new interpretation of the links between Christian decline and democratic traditions.

Recenzje

...A very welcome interpretive study...

O autorze

Frank Prochaska is a distinguished historian of modern British history, whose books include Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England (1980), The Voluntary Impulse (1988), Philanthropy and the Hospitals of London: the King's Fund, 1897-1990 (1992), Royal Bounty: the Making of a Welfare Monarchy (1995), and The Republic of Britain, 1760-2000. He teaches at Yale University and holds an Honorary Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London University.