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This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period
which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History',
on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a
discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at
the end of the Middle Ages to the influence of war on London
Merchant class at the end of the seventeenth century. This book was
first published in 1972.
This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period
which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History',
on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a
discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at
teh end of the Middle Ages to the influence of war on London
Merchant class at the end of the seventeenth century. This book was
first published in 1972.
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.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout
history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It
was responsible for the 'Plague of Justinian' in 542, the Black
Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as
for devastating epidemics in China and India between the 1890s and
1920s. In the 21st century Coronavirus pandemics have served as a
powerful reminder that we have not escaped the global impact of
epidemic diseases. In this Very Short Introduction, Paul Slack
takes a global approach to explore the historical and social impact
of plague over the centuries, looking at the ways in which it has
been interpreted, and the powerful images it has left behind in art
and literature. Examining what plague meant for those who suffered
from it, and how governments began to fight against it, he
demonstrates the impact plague has had on modern notions of public
health, and how it has shaped our history. This new edition also
includes evidence on the nature of plague taken from recent
discoveries in ancient DNA as well as new research on plague in the
Middle East. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series
from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost
every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to
get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine
facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only
then did it become usual for people to think that the most
effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution
or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human
ingenuity to the challenge of increasing the country's wealth and
general wellbeing. Improvements in agriculture and industry,
commerce and social welfare, would bring infinite prosperity and
happiness. The word improvement was itself a recent coinage. It was
useful as a slogan summarising all these goals, and since it had no
equivalent in other languages, it gave the English a distinctive
culture of improvement that they took with them to Ireland and
Scotland, and to their possessions overseas. It made them different
from everyone else. The Invention of Improvement explains how this
culture of improvement came about. Paul Slack explores the
political and economic circumstances which allowed notions of
improvement to take root, and the changes in habits of mind which
improvement accelerated. It encouraged innovation, industriousness,
and the acquisition of consumer goods which delivered comfort and
pleasure. There was a new appreciation of material progress as a
process that could be measured, and its impact was publicised by
the circulation of information about it. It had made the country
richer and many of its citizens more prosperous, if not always
happier. Drawing on a rich variety of contemporary literature, The
Invention of Improvement situates improvement at the centre of
momentous changes in how people thought and behaved, how they
conceived of their environment and their collective prospects, and
how they cooperated in order to change them.
Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a
succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and
Present. This selection shows how the various forms of popular
protest in England from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have
been reinterpreted by modern scholars. Topics range from the great
Tudor rebellions of 1536 and 1549 to the urban disorders in London
and the food riots of the eighteenth century. Behind this variety,
however, there were important continuities and similarities.
Gathered in a single volume, the essays show how detailed studies
of popular protest have transformed our knowledge of popular
mentality and its relationship with social and economic change.
This volume is a tribute to one of England's greatest living historians, Sir Keith Thomas, by distinguished scholars who have been his pupils. They describe the changing meanings of civility and civil manners since the sixteenth century. They show how the terms were used with respect to different people - women, the English and the Welsh, imperialists, and businessmen - and their effects in fields as varied as sexual relations, religion, urban politics, and private life.
The poor law had a profound impact on English society between the
sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Designed to reform the poor
as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of
government and determined people's expectations and assumptions
about social welfare. Over the last few decades there has been a
good deal of detailed research examining how the law was
implemented in different regions, its influence on social attitudes
and social realities, and its significance as a major burden on
local government and a source of political and social concern. The
English Poor Law, 1531-1782 provides a concise synthesis of past
work, explaining the origins of this unique system of welfare, and
showing how the poor law played a central role in English social
and political development from the Reformation to the Industrial
Revolution.
The poor law had a profound impact on English society between the
sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Designed to reform the poor
as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of
government and determined people's expectations and assumptions
about social welfare. Over the last few decades there has been a
good deal of detailed research examining how the law was
implemented in different regions, its influence on social attitudes
and social realities, and its significance as a major burden on
local government and a source of political and social concern. The
English Poor Law, 1531-1782 provides a concise synthesis of past
work, explaining the origins of this unique system of welfare, and
showing how the poor law played a central role in English social
and political development from the Reformation to the Industrial
Revolution.
This book is a classic study of a disease which had a profound
impact on the history of Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both
a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating
urban populations. Slack vividly describes the stresses which
plague imposed on individuals, families, and whole communities, and
the ways in which people tried to explain, control, and come to
terms with it.
A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics
and policy by an international team of distinguished experts. Water
management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the USA,
the elaboration of the European Water Framework Directive, the
British experience of water management, the over-exploitation of
African aquifers, and the evolution of the water situation in
Southern Africa are all examined.
This volume underlines the fact that only an integrative and
interdisciplinary understanding can lead to genuinely improved
water management practices that will not benefit some social groups
at the expense of others.
Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the present day--have shaped not only our views of medicine and disease, but the ways in which people have defined the "health" of society in general terms.
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