Transnational Philanthropy: The Mond Family`s Support for Public Institutions in Western Europe from 1890 to 1938, Adam Thomas

Автор: Dobbins M., Knill C.
Название: Higher Education Governance and Policy Change in Western Europe: International Challenges to Historical Institutions
ISBN: 1349485985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349485987
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book provides a comparative analysis of the impact of `soft Europeanization` on higher education governance in Western Europe. Using concrete indicators of policy change, it focuses on university reform in Italy, France, Germany and the UK to explore how historical legacies and transnational communication have impacted policy pathways.

Автор: Snape Robert
Название: Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880
ISBN: 1350003018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350003019
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. In post-First World War social reconstruction these writers remained influential as leisure became a field of social service, directed towards a new society and working through voluntary association in civic societies, settlements, new estate community-centres, village halls and church-based communities.

This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure, teasing out intellectual influences which included social idealism, liberalism and socialism. Leisure, Robert Snape claims, has been a central and under-recognized organizing force in British communities.

Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939 marks a much needed addition to the historiography of leisure and an antidote to the widely misunderstood implications of leisure to social policy today.