Morality and the market in Victorian Britain
By: G.R. Searle.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Capitalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Moral conditions.
Description: How could Victorian capitalist values be harmonized with Christian beliefs and concepts of public morality and social duty? This book explores ideas about citizenship and public virtue and how public morality was reconciled with the market.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-294) and index.