From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780198206613 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 192 str.

Paul Slack

Opis

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'.

Recenzje

These three themes add up to a wonderfully rich and convincing body of work ... From Reformation to Improvement hammers another nail into the coffin of economic determinism and argues powerfully for the primacy of ideology in driving human affairs ... a disturbing, as well as an exciting and important, book.

O autorze

Paul Slack is Principal of Linacre College, Oxford.