Beschreibung:
"This book is far more than the history of a single institution. It is also a thoughtful examination of political ideology and social discourse in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an important and convincing argument about the origins of social policy in the Third Republic."--Don Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One. Rhetoric of Reform>1. The Modern Sphinx: Debating the Social Question in NineteenthCentury France>2. Inventing a Social Museum>Part Two. Networking for Reform>3. A Genealogy of Republican Reform>4. A Laboratory for Social Reform>Part Three. Implementing Reform>5. Voluntary Associations and the Republican Ideal>6. The Modernity of Hygiene: Interventions in the City>ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex