The Experience of Urban Poverty, 1723-82: Parish, Charity and Credit
This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the irregular pulse of poverty's encounters with officialdom. It exploits an unusual methodology to secure new perspectives from familiar sources. The highly localised characteristics of the welfare economy generated a peculiarly urban environment for the poor. Separate chapters examine the parameters of workhouse life when the preconceptions of contemporaries have been stripped away; the reach of institutional charities such as almshouses, schools and infirmaries; and the surprisingly broad clientele of urban pawnbrokers. Detailed analysis of the poor is achieved via meticulou…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7190-7504-9
- EAN: 9780719075049
- Produktnummer: 23471423
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 289 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.9 cm 612 g
- Gewicht: 612
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Alannah Tomkins is Lecturer in History at the University of Keele
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