Bureaucrats and beggars : French social policy in the Age of the Enlightenment / Thomas McStay Adams
by Adams, Thomas McStay
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780195051681
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover. 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. 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 D�p�ts""""; 4. Running the Machine; 5. Deriving a Formula; 6. Attack on the D�p�ts; 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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- Title
- Bureaucrats and beggars : French social policy in the Age of the Enlightenment / Thomas McStay Adams
- Author
- Adams, Thomas McStay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195051688
- ISBN 13
- 9780195051681
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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