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The essays in this volume explore continuities and changes in the
role of philanthropic organizations in Europe and North America in
the period around the French Revolution. They aim to make
connections between research on the early modern and late modern
periods, and to analyze policies towards poverty in different
countries within Europe and across the Atlantic. Cunningham and
Innes highlight the new role for voluntary organizations emerging
in the late eighteenth century and draws out the implications of
this for received accounts of the development of welfare states.
New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in
the "long eighteenth century". Law and legal institutions were of
huge importance in the governance of Georgian society: legislation
expanded the province of administrative authority out of all
proportion, while the reach of the common law and its communal
traditions of governance diminished, at least outside British North
America. But what did the rule of law mean to eighteenth-century
people, and how did it connect with changing experiences of law in
all their bewildering complexity?This question has received much
recent critical attention, but despite widespread agreement about
Law's significance as a key to unlock so much which was central to
contemporary life, as a whole previous scholarship has only offered
a fragmented picture of the Laws in their social meanings and
actions. Through a broader-brush approach, The British and their
Laws in the Eighteenth Century contributes fresh analyses of law in
England andBritish settler colonies, c. 1680-1830; its expert
contributors consider among other matters the issues of
participation, central-local relations, and the maintenance of
common law traditions in the context of increasing legislative
interventions and grants of statutory administrative powers.
Contributors: SIMON DEVEREAUX, MICHAEL LOBBAN, DOUGLAS HAY, JOANNA
INNES, WILFRED PREST, C.W. BROOKS, RANDALL MCGOWEN, DAVID THOMAS
KONIG, BRUCE KERCHER
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Joanna Innes
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R315
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Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain
in a period when central government was not active in making it.
Parliament proved capable of generating national legislation
nonetheless-and provided a forum for debate even when it was
impossible to mobilise consensus behind any particular plan. In
this setting, there was a lively, and surprisingly inclusive,
'politics' of social policy-making, in which 'inferior' officers of
government (what we might call 'local authorities') figured
prominently. The book explores institutional structures which
shaped these debates and their outcomes, and supplies several case
studies of policy-making: one focussing on some of the less
well-known activities of William Wilberforce, as he attempted to
promote a national 'reformation of manners'; others featuring such
apparently marginal figures as imprisoned debtors and a lowly (and
bigoted) London constable. A central chapter explores the history
of social and economic empirical enquiry from the invention of
'political arithmetic' in the later seventeenth century through to
the first census of 1801, detailing similar interaction between
government and private enthusiasts. Drawing together three decades
of the author's work, including two new essays, Inferior Politics
demonstrates how Joanna Innes has significantly revised and
extended our understanding of the ways and means of British
domestic government, in an era marked by institutional continuity
but continuing and vigorously debated social challenges.
Mediterranean states are often thought to have 'democratised' only
in the post-war era, as authoritarian regimes were successively
overthrown. On its eastern and southern shores, the process is
still contested. Re-imagining Democracy looks back to an earlier
era, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and argues
it was this era when some modern version of 'democracy' in the
region first began. By the 1860s, representative regimes had been
established throughout southern Europe, and representation was also
the subject of experiment and debate in Ottoman territories. Talk
of democracy, its merits and limitations, accompanied much of this
experimentation - though there was no agreement as to whether or
how it could be given stable political form. Re-imagining Democracy
assembles experts in the history of the Mediterranean, who have
been exploring these themes collaboratively, to compare and
contrast experiences in this region, so that they can be set
alongside better-known debates and experiments in North Atlantic
states. States in the region all experienced some form of
subordination to northern 'great powers'. In this context, their
inhabitants had to grapple with broader changes in ideas about
state and society while struggling to achieve and maintain
meaningful self-rule at the level of the polity, and self-respect
at the level of culture. Innes and Philip highlight new research
and ideas about a region whose experiences during the 'age of
revolutions' are at best patchily known and understood, as well as
to expand understanding of the complex and variegated history of
democracy as an idea and set of practices.
Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850 pays tribute to one of
the leading historians working on early modern England, Paul Slack,
and his work as a historian, and enters into discussion with the
rapidly growing body of work on the 'history of emotions'. The
themes of suffering and happiness run through Paul Slack's
publications; the first being more prominent in his early work on
plague and poverty, the second in his more recent work on
conceptual frameworks for social thought and action. Though he has
not himself engaged directly with the history of emotions,
assembling essays on these themes provides an opportunity to do
that. The chapters explore in turn shifting discourses of happiness
and suffering over time; the deployment of these discourses for
particular purposes at specific moments; and their relationship to
subjective experience. In their introduction, the editors note the
very diverse approaches that can be taken to the topic; they
suggest that it is best treated not as a discrete field of enquiry
but as terrain in which many paths may fruitfully cross. The
history of emotions has much to offer as a site of encounter
between historians with diverse knowledge, interests, and skills.
This book takes a look at the 'age of reform', from 1780 when
reform became a common object of aspiration, to the 1830s - the era
of the 'Reform Ministry' and of the Great Reform Act of 1832 - and
beyond, when such aspirations were realized more frequently. It
pays close attention to what contemporaries termed 'reform',
identifying two strands, institutional and moral, which interacted
in complex ways. Particular reforming initiatives singled out for
attention include those targeting parliament, government, the law,
the Church, medicine, slavery, regimens of self-care, opera,
theatre, and art institutions, while later chapters situate British
reform in its imperial and European contexts. An extended
introduction provides a point of entry to the history and
historiography of the period. The book will therefore stimulate
fresh thinking about this formative period of British history.
Combining the research of recognized young scholars, this book revisits Britain's much-studied "age of reform", before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832. It demonstrates that "reformers" hoped to reform not only parliament, government, the law and the church, but also medicine and the theater, among other entities. While the study focuses primarily on Britain, it also includes essays on Ireland, the Empire and continental Europe. A substantial introduction provides an overview of the period and its historiography.
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