1st Edition

The Philosophy of the State and the Practice of Welfare The Writings of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet

Edited By Helen Bosanquet, J. H. Muirhead Copyright 1997
570 Pages
by Routledge

Unemployment, poverty and the role of the state were themes which structured the discourse of social theory and the developing social legislation in Britain at the end of the Victorian period and the early twentieth century. This collection examines the neglected contribution of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet to that contemporary maelstrom of ideas about the condition of the people, the process of... Read more

Introduction; Preface; Home and School 1848-1867; Oxford 1867-1881; London 1881-1897; Catherham and Oxshott 1897-1903; St. Andrews and After 1903-1923

Biography

Helen Bosanquet, J.H. Muirhead (Editor); New introduction by David Gladstone, University of Bristol.