Philanthropy and Police: London Charity in the Eighteenth Century
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Philanthropy and Police: London Charity in the Eighteenth Century
By (Author) Donna T. Andrew
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Police and security services
361.709421
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1991
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
510g
Description
In this study of voluntary charities in eighteenth-century London, Donna Andrew reconsiders the adequacy of humanitarianism as an explanation for the wave of charitable theorizing and experimentation that characterized this period. Focusing on London, the most visible area of both destitution and social experimentation, this book examines the polit
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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
