M. J. D. Roberts, Roberts M. J. D.

Making English Morals

Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787 1886

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Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the volunteer networks for moral reforms of late Georgian and Victorian England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780521100144
• ISBN-10: 0521100143
• Artikelnr.: 25497739

Autorenporträt

M. J. D. Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of numerous articles on volunteer association in religious and philanthropic life of the 18th and 19th centuries, and has held visiting fellowships at the Universities of Adelaide and of Edinburgh, and at All Souls College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Moral reform in the 1780s: the making of an agenda
2. 'The best means of national safety': Moral reform in wartime, 1795-1815
3. Taming the masses, 1815-34
4. From social control to self-control, 1834-57
5. Moral individualism: the renewal and reappraisal of an ideal, 1857-80
6. The late Victorian crisis of moral reform: the 1880s and after.