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From Reformation to Improvement - Public Welfare in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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From Reformation to Improvement - Public Welfare in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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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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