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Subject(s)

• Social ethics—England—History—19th century [Browse]
• Social movements—England—History—19th century [Browse]
• Voluntarism—England—History—19th century [Browse]
• Social reformers—England—History—19th century [Browse]
• Moral development—England—History—19th century [Browse]
• England—Social conditions—19th century [Browse]
• England—Moral conditions [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 2. [More in this series]
• Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 2 [More in this series]

Summary note

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' 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.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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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ISBN

• 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

OCLC

228144607

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