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UNINA9910784313003321 |
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Roberts M. J. D. |
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Making English morals : voluntary association and moral reform in England, 1787-1886 / / M.J.D. Roberts [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
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1-107-14936-3 |
1-280-54073-7 |
0-511-21431-6 |
0-511-21610-6 |
0-511-21073-6 |
0-511-31503-1 |
0-511-49601-X |
0-511-21250-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge social and cultural histories ; ; 2 |
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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 |
England Social conditions 19th century |
England Moral conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index. |
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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. |
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Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity organisation, cruelty prevention, 'social purity' |
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advocates, and more, all promoted their causes through mobilisation of citizen volunteer support. This 2004 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. In its exploration of this culture of self-consciously altruistic associational effort, the book provides a systematic survey of moral reform movements as a distinct tradition of citizen action over this period, as well as casting light on the formation of a middle-class culture torn, in this stage of economic and political nation-building, between acceptance of a market-organised society and unease about the cultural consequences of doing so. This is a revelatory book that is both compelling and accessible. |
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UNINA9910783944303321 |
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Autore |
Laszlo Ervin <1932-> |
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Vision 2020 : reordering chaos for global survival / / Ervin Laszlo |
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Yverdon, Switzerland : , : Gordon and Breach, , 1994 |
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©1994 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-15143-9 |
0-203-99083-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxiiv, 138 pages) |
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Social change - Forecasting |
Twenty-first century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREAMBLE; CHAPTER 1 The Obsolescence of Modern Beliefs: Unsurprising Surprises at the Dawn of a New Age; CHAPTER 2 The Challenge of Responsibility; THE QUESTION OF BLAME; THE MATTER OF RESPONSIBILITY; THE CHALLENGE; CHAPTER 3 Bifurcation and Chaos: Understanding the Dynamics of Change; A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BIFURCATION AND |
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CHAOS THEORY; BEYOND THEORY: BIFURCATIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE; CHAPTER 4 Perspectives of an Evolving World: New Ways to See Our Future; TWO KINDS OF EVOLUTION; Biological Evolution; Social Evolution |
EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS IN HISTORY The Circular Pattern; The Helical Pattern; The Linear Pattern; The Nonlinear Pattern; SEEING THE FUTURE; CHAPTER 5 The Butterflies of Chaos: Launching the Third Strategy; THE OBSOLETE ALTERNATIVES; THE HUMANISTIC EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY; CHAPTER 6 Vision 2020: Imaging a Post-Critical World; OBJECTIVES TO SAFEGUARD THE INDIVIDUAL; Objective Number One: Restrain the Power of Nation-States; Objective Number Two: Restrain the Power of Politicians; OBJECTIVES TO ACHIEVE GLOBAL COOPERATION; Objective Number Three: Concords of Defense Cooperation |
Objective Number Four: Concords of Environmental Cooperation Objective Number Five: Concords of Development Cooperation; CHAPTER 7 The Grand Alliance of Science, Art, Religion, and Education; THE ROLE OF SCIENCE; THE ROLE OF ART; THE ROLE OF RELIGION; THE ROLE OF EDUCATION; CHAPTER 8 The Big Picture: Further Reflections on Our Past and Our Future; THE GAMBLE ON INTELLIGENCE; FACING OUR COLLECTIVE IQ TEST; Appendix Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Systems Theory; THE FOUNDATIONS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ADVANCES IN THEORY; IN CONCLUSION; FURTHER READING: Basic Writings on Evolution and Society; Index |
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This revised edition of the classic text of the period provides both the student and the specialist with an informative account of post-Roman English society. |
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