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Paul Slack's incisive analysis shows how the English came to believe between 1500 and 1740 that piecemeal improvement was more likely to be achieved than total social reformation. He examines social policy and institutions such as workhouses and hospitals in order to illustrate how contemporaries tried to shape their social and moral environment, and how they defined the notion of welfare'.

Throughout history plague has caused some of the greatest periods of hardship for humanity, from the Black Death to the Great Plague of London. This book explores the causes of plague, the presence of plague in art and literature, and the lasting impact of the disease on how people and governments behave when threatened by epidemic crises.

This book explores the shifting relationship between people and their environment by focusing on the relationship between the environmental and historical change. It examines questions such as, how has climate fluctuated and why? how have people exploited natural and defined their local place in it?, and why have boundaries taken the shapes they have?

Written by acknowledged experts in different fields - archaeology, history, and geography - in accessible form, this is an account of the evolution of human settlement in Britain over the last half-million years and its impact on the landscape from the beginnings to the present day. It reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape ha...

This book is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact on the history of Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating urban populations. Slack vividly describes the stresses which plague imposed on individuals, families, and whole communities, and the ways in which people tried to explain, control, and come to terms with it.

Explores the concept of improvement which took root in seventeenth-century England, the political and economic circumstances which led to its rise, the effect it had on the society and culture of England, and its subsequent outreach as the British Empire spread.

»Beulenpest«, »Pestilenz« oder gar »Der Schwarze Tod«: Die Pest hat viele Namen. Wie diese verheerende Seuche die Menschheit geprägt hat, darüber schreibt Paul Slack in seinem Buch >Die Pest<: Von der Antike über das Mittelalter bis heute zeichnet er nach, wie die Pest ganze Bevölkerungen an den Rand der Ausrottung brachte und welche Auswirkungen das auf die betroffenen Gesellschaften hatte.

A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.

Un morbo che ha profondamente influenzato il corso della storia: dalla "peste di Giustiniano", fra VI e Vili secolo, alla peste nera fra XIV e XVIII secolo, alla pandemia che solo cento anni fa fece tredici milioni di vittime in Cina e India. Questo libro ci racconta che cos'è la peste sotto il profilo medico, come è stata identificata, come si è manifestata nel tempo, in che modo la vivevano le persone e con quale politica sanitaria fu contra...

Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present.

A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.