The Civilising Offensive: Social and Educational Reform in 19th Century Belgium

Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe's most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle poque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium. This book will stimulate the debate between historians & social pedagogues on the 19^th-century bourgeois 'civilising offensive' and place the history of social, moral and educational reform in Belgium within a broader European perspective.