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