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Author Roberts, M. J. D

Title Making English morals : voluntary association and moral reform in England, 1787-1886 / M.J.D. Roberts
Published Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages)
Series Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 2
Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 2.
Contents Moral reform in the 1780s: the making of an agenda -- The best means of national safety : moral reform in wartime, 1795-1815 -- Taming the masses, 1815-1834 -- From social control to self-control, 1834-1857 -- Moral individualism: the renewal and reappraisal of an ideal, 1857-1880 -- The late Victorian crisis of moral reform: the 1880s and after
Summary Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. This book sets out to explore the world of these volunteer networks, their foci of concern, their patterns of recruitment, their methods of operation, and the responses they aroused
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index
Notes English
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Subject Social ethics -- England -- History -- 19th century
Social movements -- England -- History -- 19th century
Voluntarism -- England -- History -- 19th century
Social reformers -- England -- History -- 19th century
Moral development -- England -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Moral conditions
Moral development
Social ethics
Social conditions
Social movements
Social reformers
Voluntarism
Sociale bewegingen.
Vrijwilligers.
Morele ontwikkeling.
SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043316
England -- Moral conditions
Subject England
Genre/Form History
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