The Civilising Offensive : : Social and Educational Reform in 19th-Century Belgium.

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Superior document:New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought Series ; v.1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin/München/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2018.
{copy}2019.
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. New Perspectives on Social and Educational Reform during the Long Nineteenth Century. An Introduction
  • Part I. Social-Pedagogical Perspectives on Social and Educational Reform
  • 2. "On voit bien que c′est un petit malheureux des Hospices". The Child, the Body and the Bath in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: a Cure for the Future?
  • 3. The Social Question as an Urban Question. A Social-Pedagogical Analysis of Participatory Initiatives in Rabot (Ghent) during the Nineteenth Century
  • Part II. New Topics in the History of Social and Educational Reform
  • 4. Catholic Fundraising to Educate the Poor. The History of the Société Civile du Crédit de la Charité (1855-1878)
  • 5. Putting the Rural World on the Road of Progress? Experiences of Failure by Local Activists of the Belgian Education League (c. 1865-1884)
  • 6. Schools of Decency and Discipline. Social Reform and People's Restaurants in the Low Countries (1860s-1914)
  • Part III. Transnational Connections and Circulations
  • 7. The Opposite of Dante's Hell? The Transfer of Ideas for Social Housing at International Congresses in the 1850s- 1860s
  • 8. (Re‐)educational Internationalism in the Low Countries, 1850-1914
  • 9. The Intellectual Mobility of Auguste Wagener (1829-1896) in a Transnational Network of Social Reform. A Cross-Border History
  • Notes on Authors
  • Index of Names.