Philanthropy in England
Series: Routledge Library Editions; Routledge Library Editions
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Florence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 878
ISBN-13: 9781317850885
Subjects: Charities; History; Charity organization; Social conditions
Notes: 2 The wealth of the great urban classes.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Volume I; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Bibliographical Note; Table of Contents; I The Conception; II The Method; A Divers Problems of Method; 1 Wills as sources; 2 Living gifts as sources; 3 The principle of county selection; 4 Population and wealth ; 5 The historical intervals ; 6 Units of reckoning ; B Frailties of the Method; C The Great Charitable Heads; III The Need; A The Decline of the Middle Ages and the Emergence of Endemic Poverty; B The Problem of Poverty in the Sixteenth Century.; title: 1 Increasing sensitivity to suffering and want 2 The social consequences of the monastic expropriations ; 3 Agricultural changes and the increase of poverty ; 4 Demographic factors ; 5 The protest of conscience; 6 Urbanization and the new poverty ; 7 The erosion of inflation ; 8 The scourge of epidemics; IV The Mechanisms; A Social Reform as An Aspect of Public Order; B The Problem of Vagrancy; 1 The parish as the unit of responsibility ; C The Poor: The Gradual Assumption of National Responsibility; 1 Early Tudor legislation; 2 Early Elizabethan legislation; 3 The great Elizabethan code.; title: (A) The problem of poverty reaches a crisis(b) The great debate; (c) The framing of the law; (d) Pride of achievement; (e) Problems of administration; 4 Seventeenth century glosses on the law; D The Evolution and Maturing of The Charitable Trust; 1 The historical and legal background; 2 The Elizabethan codification; 3 Analysis of the achievement; V Law and Reality; VI The Impulse; A General Comment; 1 The problem of motives ; 2 Metamorphosis of the mediaeval conception of alms ; 3 The changing pattern of aspirations: secularization of the charitable impulse ; 4 The logic of the need.; title: 5 The confirmation of national policy B The Great Moving Impulses; 1 The emergence of the Protestant ethic ; 2 The ambit of opportunity; 3 The literature of exhortation ; (a) Prior to the Reformation; (b) The Elizabethan age; (c) The early Stuart period; (d) The ferment of revolution ; 4 In praise of famous men ; 5 To put the enemy to shame ; VII The Achievement; A The General Sweep of The Evidence; B The Great Charitable Causes; 1 The poor; 2 ocial rehabilitation ; 3 Municipal betterments ; 4 Education ; 5 Religion ; C The Changing Structure of Class Aspirations; 1 Introductory comment.; title: 2 The means of grace3 The measure of responsibility; 4 The aspirations of the several classes of men; 5 The velocity of change; D England Becomes A Nation; Appendix; Index; Volume II; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Abbreviations; Table of Contents; I The City and Its People; II General Comments on the Data; III The Aspirations of Women Donors; IV The Web of Parishes; A London; B Middlesex; V The Structure of Class Aspirations; A The Dominance Of The Merchant Elite ; 1 Observatiom on the class.