Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Despite the lack of consensus, there was a lively and inclusive 'politics' of social policy-making, in which 'inferior' officers of government (what we might call 'local authorities') figured prominently.
Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Despite the lack of consensus, there was a lively and inclusive 'politics' of social policy-making, in which 'inferior' officers of government (what we might call 'local authorities') figured prominently.
Joanna Innes was born in London in 1954 and educated in England and the United States. She studied history at Cambridge, and has been at Somerville College Oxford since 1982. She was co-editor of the journal Past and Present from 1990-2000. She has contributed to the revitalisation of eighteenth-century British history, now widely recognised as a lively and innovative field of study. She is now pursuing her interests in the development of British social policy into the early nineteenth century.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Structures * Parliament and the Shaping of Eighteenth-Century English Social Policy * The Domestic Face of the Military-Fiscal State: State and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain * The Local Acts of a National Parliament: Parliament's Role in Sanctioning Local Action in Eighteenth-Century Britain * Empirical Enquiry * Power and Happiness: Empirical Social Enquiry from Political Arithmetic to Moral Statistics * Case Studies * Politics and Morals: the Reformation of Manners Movement in Later Eighteenth-Century England * The King's Bench Prison in the Later Eighteenth Century: Law, Authority and Order in a London Debtors' Prison * The Protestant Carpenter: William Payne of Bell Yard (c. 1718-1782). The Life and Times of a London Informing Constable
* Introduction * Structures * Parliament and the Shaping of Eighteenth-Century English Social Policy * The Domestic Face of the Military-Fiscal State: State and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain * The Local Acts of a National Parliament: Parliament's Role in Sanctioning Local Action in Eighteenth-Century Britain * Empirical Enquiry * Power and Happiness: Empirical Social Enquiry from Political Arithmetic to Moral Statistics * Case Studies * Politics and Morals: the Reformation of Manners Movement in Later Eighteenth-Century England * The King's Bench Prison in the Later Eighteenth Century: Law, Authority and Order in a London Debtors' Prison * The Protestant Carpenter: William Payne of Bell Yard (c. 1718-1782). The Life and Times of a London Informing Constable
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