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Auteur(s) : Innes, Joanna Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Inferior politics [Texte imprimé] : social problems and social policies in eighteenth-century Britain / Joanna Innes

Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

Description matérielle : xviii, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collection : The past and present book series

Lien à la collection : The past and present book series

Comprend : Structures. Parliament and the shaping of eighteenth-century English social policy ; The domestic face of the military-fiscal state : government 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 in Britain, 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. 1718-82) : the life and times of a London informing constable.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
This work 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 figured prominently

Sujet(s) : Conditions sociales -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Conditions sociales -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Politique sociale -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Politique sociale -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet