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Paul Alexander Slack FBA (born 23 January 1943) is a British historian. He is a former principal of Linacre College, Oxford, pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and professor of early modern social history in the University of Oxford .
Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History and former Principal of Linacre College, Oxford. Author of The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England.
Paul Slack explores the political and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root, and the changes in habits of mind which improvement accelerated. It encouraged innovation, industriousness, and the acquisition of consumer goods which delivered comfort and pleasure.
Paul Slack explores the political and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root, and the changes in habits of mind which improvement accelerated. It encouraged...
29 de dic. de 2015 · Paul Slack, The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). Pages xii + 321. £35.00 hardback. | Continuity and Change | Cambridge Core.
28 de sept. de 1995 · Paul Slack. Cambridge University Press, Sep 28, 1995 - Business & Economics - 73 pages. The Poor Law had a profound impact on English society. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve...
Professor Paul Slack. University of Oxford. History. Research: I am currently working on contemporary reactions to the decline of plague in Europe in the 18th-century. I’m therefore interested in how people identified the end of the second pandemic of bubonic plague (if they did), and how they explained it.
