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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 . Life. Slack was educated at Bradford Grammar School, the University of Oxford ( BA, DPhil ).
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.
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.
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...
10 de ago. de 2017 · The themes of suffering and happiness run through Paul Slack’s publications, the first being more prominent in his early work on plague and poverty, the second in his more recent work on conceptual frameworks for social thought and action.
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.
