Inferior politics : social problems and social policies in eighteenth-century Britain / Joanna Innes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Innes, Joanna.

Series:

Past & present book series.

The past & present book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Social policy.

Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.

Great Britain--Social policy--Case studies.

Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century--Case studies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 364 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations and Figures

Acknowledgements

Note on the text

Abbreviations

Introduction

I. STRUCTURES

1. Parliament and the shaping of eighteenth-century English social policy

2. The domestic face of the military-fiscal state: government and society in eighteenth-century Britain

3. The local acts of a national Parliament: Parliament's role in sanctioning local action in eighteenth-century Britain

II. EMPIRICAL ENQUIRY

4. Power and happiness: empirical social enquiry in Britain, from 'political arithmetic' to 'moral statistics'

III. CASE STUDIES

5. Politics and morals: the reformation of manners movement in later eighteenth-century England

6. The King's Bench prison in the later eighteenth century: law, authority, and order in a London debtors' prison

7. The Protestant carpenter-William Payne of Bell Yard (c.1718-82): the life and times of a London informing constable

Index of bills and acts

General index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191571527

0191571520

OCLC:

662258983