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Author Adams, Thomas McStay

Title Bureaucrats and beggars : French social policy in the Age of the Enlightenment / Thomas McStay Adams
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (x, 384 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series OUP E-Books
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis Poor persons Social conditions
France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Beggars -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 18th century
Almshouses -- France -- History -- 18th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
Almshouses
Armenzorg.
Bedelaars.
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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