From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England

Paul Slack's incisive analysis shows how the English came to believe between 1500 and 1740 that piecemeal improvement was more likely to be achieved than total social reformation. He examines social policy and institutions such as workhouses and hospitals in order to illustrate how contemporaries tried to shape their social and moral environment, and how they defined the notion of welfare'.

Author: Paul Slack
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 10/07/1999
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.32w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780198206613

About the Author
Paul Slack is Principal of Linacre College, Oxford.

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