Bureaucrats and Beggars e-bog
1386,89 DKK
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In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained. In this study, Adams probes the accomplishments and the failings of these so-called dpts de mendicit, as seen by critics of the experiment (including ...
E-bog
1386,89 DKK
Forlag
Oxford University Press
Udgivet
31 januar 1991
Genrer
3JF
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780195364019
In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained. In this study, Adams probes the accomplishments and the failings of these so-called dpts de mendicit, as seen by critics of the experiment (including learned judges and influential spokesmen of the provincial Estates) and as seen by those responsible for its success: the provincial intendants, the royal engineers, the doctors, the inspectors, the contractors, and various givers of advice. He shows how the debate--both internal and external--over the operation of the dpts contributed to the intellectual ferment of the Enlightenment and the Revolution. The resulting web of reasoning and empirical data gave support to Montesquieu's principle that the state owes every one of its citizens "e;a secure subsistence, suitable food and clothing, and a manner of life that is not contrary to good health."e;