From Reformation to Improvement —— Public Welfare in Early Modern England

----- 从改革到改善：近代早期英国的公益事业

ISBN: 9780198206613 出版年：2011 页码：187 Slack, Paul Clarendon Press

Paul Slack's incisive analysis shows how the English came to believe between 1500 and 1740 that piecemeal improvement was more likely to be achieved than total social reformation. He examines social policy and institutions such as workhouses and hospitals in order to illustrate how contemporaries tried to shape their social and moral environment, and how they defined the notion of `welfare'.