Bureaucrats and beggars : French social policy in the Age of the Enlightenment / Thomas McStay Adams.
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TextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (x, 384 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 1429401516
- 9781429401517
- 1601296762
- 9781601296764
- 9780195051681
- 0195051688
- 9786610440153
- 6610440158
- Beggars -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Almshouses -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Mendiants -- Politique gouvernementale -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Asiles d'indigents -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness
- Almshouses
- France
- Armenzorg
- Bedelaars
- 1700-1799
- Poor persons Social conditions
- France
- 362.5/85/094409034 20
- HV4554 .A33 1990eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index.
Print version record.
Introduction; 1. Mendicity-The Language of Poverty; 2. The Impulse to Legislate; 3. ""Provisional Dépôts""; 4. Running the Machine; 5. Deriving a Formula; 6. Attack on the Dépôts; 7. Philosophy and Bureaucracy; 8. Old Medicine and New; 9. Laboratory of Virtue; 10. Reform and Revolution; 11. Founding a New Regime; Epilogue and Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; 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
Thomas Adams explores the social context in which the French Enlightenment arose by focusing on the response of 18th-century French society to the problem of poverty, and examining the institutions which were established in this period to rehabilitate the poor.
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