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"This work is in part a study of the creation of professional authority and autonomy by museum curators. More importantly though, it is about the stabilization of middle-class identities by the end of the nineteenth century around new hierarchies of cultural capital. Public muse…
Through an examination of the birth and development of municipal museums up to 1914, Hill attempts to discover why so much in the way of hopes and fears was pinned on these institutions, how they acted on society, and how society acted on them.
"This work is in part a study of the creation of professional authority and autonomy by museum curators. More importantly though, it is about the stabilization of middle-class identities by the end of the nineteenth century around new hierarchies of cultural capital. Public muse…
This book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England form the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution.
Examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distin…
"Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860 examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unprecedented class relations of agrarian capitalism …
