A Social Laboratory for Modern France: the Musee Social and the Rise of the Welfare State.(Book Review) From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: Beudoin, Steven M. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Janet R. Home (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii plus 354 pp. $19.95/paper $59.95/cloth).

Traditionally, European historians have relied upon an interpretive model of social welfare development that offers only two options: the welfare state or its absence. Consequently, nineteenth-century France is assessed through a lens that privileges Bismarckian social insurance and Britain's later National Health System, and is accordingly judged woefully inadequate. In ...

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