Making English Morals

This book addresses a complex and difficult subjecthe history of voluntary associations designed to initiate, support or change the direction of moral reform from the late eighteenth century to the late nineteenth. It aims to provide a chronology of associational moral reform, to place key initiatives in context and in relation to one another, and to assess their overall role. In the process it offers fresh insights into the history of the English middle classes from whence the main sources of the moral reform tradition arose. The well-crafted opening chapter attempts to define moral reform and then provides an overview of historical approaches to it, including an introduction to the key framework adopted by the bookebates about the nature of the public sphere. Subsequent chapters then take us from the akingof a moral reform agenda in the 1780s through the war-time years and post-war unrest to the transition rom social

Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Social reform · Sociology · Unrest · Voluntary association · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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  Open Access•Megan Clare Webber, Megan Webber•Historical Research•2018

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