Author: John Christopher SaintyPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Home Office Officials, 1782-1870
Author: John Christopher SaintyPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Office-holders in modern Britain
Author: Sir John SaintyForeign Office Officials, 1782-1870
Author: The Home Office, 1848-1914, from Clerks to Bureaucrats
Author: Jill PellewPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838631652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Examines the changing social and educational backgrounds functions of the British civil servant, especially after the reforms following the Northcote-Trevelyan report. Considers the structure of the department and the Home Office's alleged failure to effectively respond to contemporary social and political needs.
Office-holders in Modern Britain
Author: Late Georgian and Regency England, 1760-1837
Author: Robert A. SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A guide to historical literature on England between 1760 and 1837, emphasising more recent work.
Public Record Office Handbooks
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Home Office, 1782-1801
Author: Ronald Roy NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Handbook of Administrative History
Author: Jos RaadscheldersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135151640X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Public administration is commonly assumed to be a young discipline, rooted in law and political science, with little history of its own. Likewise, teaching and scholarship in this field is often career oriented and geared either toward the search for immediately usable knowledge or guidelines and prescriptions for the future. Although most administrative scientists would acknowledge that their field has a history, their time horizon is limited to the recent past. Raadschelders demonstrates that public administration has in fact a long-standing tradition, both in practice and in writing; administration has been an issue ever since human beings recognized the need to organize themselves in order to organize the environment in which they lived. This history, in turn, underlines the need for administrators to be aware of the importance and contemporary impact of past decisions and old traditions. In seeking to go beyond the usual problem-solving and future-oriented studies of public administration, this volume adds greatly to the cognitive richness of this field of research. Indeed, the search for theoretical generalizations will profit from an approach that unravels long-term trends in the development of administration and government."Raadschelders approaches public administration history from a dual perspective, as trained historian and professor of public administration.... The volume is appropriately called a aehandbook' in view of its methodical listing of the literature on administrative history, together with summaries of numerous authors' principal theories. The second chapter is an essay on sources in the field, including an extended bibliography.... These parts of the book alone make it useful to scholars in the field.... Raadschelders is helpful in other ways as well. The third and fourth chapters offer a highly sophisticated discussion of methodological problems encountered in writing administrative history, including the issue of perceiving 'stage
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4
Author: Jeremy BenthamPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911576151
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to set up a national scheme for the provision of poor relief. Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. Despite developing a host of original and ground-breaking ideas, contained in a mass of manuscripts, he published little during these years, and remained, at the close of this period, a relatively obscure individual. Nevertheless, these volumes reveal how the foundations were laid for the remarkable rise of Benthamite utilitarianism in the early nineteenth century. In 1789 Bentham published An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, which remains his most famous work, but which had little impact at the time, followed in 1791 by The Panopticon: or, The Inspection-House, in which he proposed the building of a circular penitentiary house. Bentham’s correspondence unfolds against the backdrop of the increasingly violent French Revolution, and shows his initial sympathy for France turning into hostility. On a personal level, in 1791 his brother Samuel returned from Russia, and in 1792 he inherited his father’s house in Queen’s Square Place, Westminster together with a significant property portfolio.