Bureaucrats and beggars : French social policy in the Age of the Enlightenment / Thomas McStay Adams
1990, 1st edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #404110
ISBN: 0195051688
Physical description; (x, 384 pages) : illustrations, maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index. 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. Subjects; 1700-1799. 18th century. Beggars Government policy France History 18th century. Almshouses France History 18th century. Poor France Government policy History 18th century. Poverty France History 18th century. Social policy; England; 1700-1800.
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