Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886

By M.J.D. Roberts

Book Overview

Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity, cruelty prevention and "social purity" advocates promoted their causes through mobilization of citizen volunteer support. M.J.D. Roberts explores the world of these volunteer networks--their concerns, patterns of recruitment, methods of operation, and responses aroused--to provide an accessible period survey of moral reform.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521833892
• ISBN13: 9780521833899
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"