New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought Ser. ; v.1
Print version: De Spiegeleer, Christoph The Civilising Offensive Berlin/Munchen/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2018 ISBN 9783110578423
Intro -- Table of Contents -- 1. New Perspectives on Social and Educational Reform during the Long Nineteenth Century. An Introduction -- 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? -- 3. The Social Question as an Urban Question. A Social-Pedagogical Analysis of Participatory Initiatives in Rabot (Ghent) during the Nineteenth Century -- Part II. New Topics in the History of Social and Educational Reform -- 4. Catholic Fundraising to Educate the Poor. The History of the Societe Civile du Credit de la Charite (1855-1878) -- 5. Putting the Rural World on the Road of Progress? Experiences of Failure by Local Activists of the Belgian Education League (c. 1865-1884) -- 6. Schools of Decency and Discipline. Social Reform and People’s Restaurants in the Low Countries (1860s-1914) -- 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 -- 8. (Re‐)educational Internationalism in the Low Countries, 1850-1914 -- 9. The Intellectual Mobility of Auguste Wagener (1829-1896) in a Transnational Network of Social Reform. A Cross-Border History -- Notes on Authors -- Index of Names.