England's "prussian Minister": Edwin Chadwick and the Politics of Government Growth, 1832-1854
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This political biography offers a fresh critical assessment of one of the major reformers of nineteenth-century Britain. Edwin Chadwick, lawyer, journalist, and protege of the great Utilitarian sage Jeremy Bentham, spent the next twenty two years after Bentham's death in 1832 in government service. As a member of various royal commissions investigating such social problems as child labor in factories, the poor laws, crime, and public health, Chadwick...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0271006293
ISBN13:9780271006291
Release Date:October 1990
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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