Thomas M Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas M Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas M |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transylvania University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9729-8274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500, Volume 2
Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and how to allow for social status); how to give support without undermi…
Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500, Volume 1
Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and how to allow for social status); how to give support without undermi…
Universalism in One Country
The republican model of social rights in France invokes the heritage of the Revolution. The meaning of this legacy is complex for several reasons. The articulation of rights during the Revolution took different forms in theory; practice fell short of aspirations. The political legacy of social rights drew strength from Enlightenment sources and from older antecedents such as the Erasmian humanism of Juan Luis Vives. Tracing the evolution of socia…
Bureaucrats and Beggars
Thomas Adams explores the social context in which the French Enlightenment arose by focusing on the response of eighteenth-century French society to the problem of poverty. The institutions (depots) which were established in this period to rehabilitate the poor, Adams argues, came to be regarded as laboratories in which society might be studied scientifically. One premise of such rehabilitation efforts was that government 'should not make men poo…
Provisioning Paris
La sociabilite villageoise dans l'ancienne france
Cabanis
Le siecle des lumieres en province
From Old Regime to New
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Actes du 97e Congres des Societes Savantes, Nantes 1972. Section d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Vol. I
Montesquieu and the Old Regime
Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789
Originally published in 1976. This book is a study of the charitable institutions of one French town, Aix-en-Provence. It begins with their foundation during the Counter-Reformation and ends with their dissolution during the Revolution. It details the impulses behind their foundation and describes how they were financed and administered. It also explores the lives of the people they helped. The study is based primarily on surviving records of the…
Mœurs et hygiène publique au XVIIIe siècle. Quelques aspects des dépôts de mendicité
Prices Paid by Vermont Farmers for Goods and Services and Received by Them for Farm Products, 1790-1940; Wages of Vermont Farm Labor, 1780-1940
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Prices Paid by Vermont Farmers for Goods and Services and Received by Them for Farm Products, 1790-1940; Wages of Vermont Farm Labor, 1780-1940
Mœurs et hygiène publique au XVIIIe siècle. Quelques aspects des dépôts de mendicité
Poverty and Charity in Aix-en-Provence, 1640-1789
Originally published in 1976. This book is a study of the charitable institutions of one French town, Aix-en-Provence. It begins with their foundation during the Counter-Reformation and ends with their dissolution during the Revolution. It details the impulses behind their foundation and describes how they were financed and administered. It also explores the lives of the people they helped. The study is based primarily on surviving records of the…
Montesquieu and the Old Regime
Actes du 97e Congres des Societes Savantes, Nantes 1972. Section d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Vol. I
Le siecle des lumieres en province
From Old Regime to New
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Cabanis
La sociabilite villageoise dans l'ancienne france
Provisioning Paris
Bureaucrats and Beggars
Thomas Adams explores the social context in which the French Enlightenment arose by focusing on the response of eighteenth-century French society to the problem of poverty. The institutions (depots) which were established in this period to rehabilitate the poor, Adams argues, came to be regarded as laboratories in which society might be studied scientifically. One premise of such rehabilitation efforts was that government 'should not make men poo…
Universalism in One Country
The republican model of social rights in France invokes the heritage of the Revolution. The meaning of this legacy is complex for several reasons. The articulation of rights during the Revolution took different forms in theory; practice fell short of aspirations. The political legacy of social rights drew strength from Enlightenment sources and from older antecedents such as the Erasmian humanism of Juan Luis Vives. Tracing the evolution of socia…
Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500, Volume 2
Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and how to allow for social status); how to give support without undermi…
Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500, Volume 1
Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and how to allow for social status); how to give support without undermi…
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