Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500
Bloomsbury Academic
978-1-350-27628-4 (ISBN)
Across two authoritative volumes, Adams reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council of Europe in Lisbon in 2000.
Volume 1, which focuses on the period from 1500 to 1700, discusses the concepts of ‘welfare’ and ‘tradition’. It looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic productivity.
Volume 2 examines 18th-century bienfaisance which secularized a Christian humanist notion of beneficence, producing new and sharply contested assertions of social citizenship. It goes on to consider how national struggles to establish comprehensive welfare states since the second half of the 19th century built on the power of the vote as politicians, pushed by activists and advised by experts, appealed to a growing class of industrial workers. Lastly, it looks at how 20th-century welfare states addressed aspirations for social citizenship while the institutional framework for European economic cooperation came to fruition
Thomas McStay Adams is an independent scholar and a retired Senior Program Officer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA. He is the author of Bureaucrats and Beggars: French Social Policy in the Age of the Enlightenment (1990).
Volume I – 1500-1700
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part 1 – Threshold of Modernity (to 1540)
1. Organizing Mercy in Southern Europe
2. Urban Charity and Humanism
3. Blueprints for Relief to the Deserving
4. The Passion for Reformation
Part 2 – Discipline (1540 – 1700)
5. Charity in the Cauldron of Religious Conflict
6. Confronting Misery and War in France
7. The Paris Hôpital Général and its Offshoots
8. Elizabeth 43: The Making of the Old English Poor Law
9. Foundlings, Orphans, and Apprentices
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Volume II: 1700-2000
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part 3 – ‘The Grumbling Hive’ (1700 – 1850)
10. France from Enlightenment to Revolution
11. A Social Republic Lost but not Forgotten
12. Poverty and Political Economy: England and Scotland
13. An Evolving Landscape for Welfare in German Lands
14. Reform from Above: Munich to Naples – How Enlightened?
15. Remodelling the Hive?
Part 4 – Intertwined Trajectories: The European Social Model(s) (1850 – 2000)
16. From Social Insurance to Sozialstaat: From Bismarck to Merkel
17. Britain and the Five Giants
18. France: A Second Empire and Three Republics
19. Star(s) in the North
20. ‘Fire in the Ashes’: Aspirations for Post War Europe
21. European Social Policy: Coordination if not Unity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.2.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-27628-6 / 1350276286 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-27628-4 / 9781350276284 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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