Europe?s Welfare Traditions Since 1500, Volume 2
1700-2000
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350580053
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 bw illus 810
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Short description:
A comprehensive examination of welfare institutions and commitments in and across Europe from 1700 to 2000.
MoreLong description:
Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility.
Across two authoritative volumes, Adams reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council of Europe in Lisbon in 2000.
Volume 2 examines 18th-century bienfaisance which secularized a Christian humanist notion of beneficence, producing new and sharply contested assertions of social citizenship. It goes on to consider how national struggles to establish comprehensive welfare states since the second half of the 19th century built on the power of the vote as politicians, pushed by activists and advised by experts, appealed to a growing class of industrial workers. Lastly, it looks at how 20th-century welfare states addressed aspirations for social citizenship while the institutional framework for European economic cooperation came to fruition.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part 3 - 'The Grumbling Hive' (1700 - 1850)
10. France from Enlightenment to Revolution
11. A Social Republic Lost but not Forgotten
12. Poverty and Political Economy: England and Scotland
13. An Evolving Landscape for Welfare in German Lands
14. Reform from Above: Munich to Naples - How Enlightened?
15. Remodelling the Hive?
Part 4 - Intertwined Trajectories: The European Social Model(s) (1850 - 2000)
16. From Social Insurance to Sozialstaat: From Bismarck to Merkel
17. Britain and the Five Giants
18. France: A Second Empire and Three Republics
19. Star(s) in the North
20. 'Fire in the Ashes': Aspirations for Post War Europe
21. European Social Policy: Coordination if not Unity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
