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The Civilising Offensive : : Social and educational reform in 19th century Belgium / / Christoph de Spiegeleer, Liberaal Archief.

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"This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the 'social question' by 'civilising' and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe's most heavily industria...

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de Spiegeleer, Christoph
TeilnehmendeR:
Liberaal Archief, ,
de Spiegeleer, Christoph,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
2018
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought
Physical Description:1 online resource (243 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. New Perspectives on Social and Educational Reform during the Long Nineteenth Century. An Introduction / De Spiegeleer, Christoph
  • 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? / De Wilde, Lieselot / Vanobbergen, Bruno / Vandenbroeck, Michel
  • 3. The Social Question as an Urban Question. A Social-Pedagogical Analysis of Participatory Initiatives in Rabot (Ghent) during the Nineteenth Century / Deceur, Evelyne / Bouverne-De Bie, Maria / Van Gorp, Angelo
  • 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) / Van de Perre, Stijn
  • 5. Putting the Rural World on the Road of Progress? Experiences of Failure by Local Activists of the Belgian Education League (c. 1865-1884) / Reimann, Christina
  • 6. Schools of Decency and Discipline. Social Reform and People's Restaurants in the Low Countries (1860s-1914) / Tyssens, Jeffrey
  • 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 / Van Praet, Carmen
  • 8. (Re‐)educational Internationalism in the Low Countries, 1850-1914 / Thiry, Amandine / D'haeninck, Thomas / Verbruggen, Christophe
  • 9. The Intellectual Mobility of Auguste Wagener (1829-1896) in a Transnational Network of Social Reform. A Cross-Border History / D'haeninck, Thomas
  • Notes on Authors
  • Index of Names

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