Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England 1787-1886

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M.J.D. ROBERTS. Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England 1787-1886. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii + 321, introduction, bibliography, index. $75.00.

Moral reform is defined in this fine and wide-ranging study by M.J.D Roberts of Macquarrie University, Sydney, as "self-conscious organised efforts by groups of concerned citizens to change moral values and to modify patterns of behaviour associated with them." The book sets out to demonstrate the role of voluntary associations in this process, and establish a chronology of "moral ...

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