The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800
The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformation…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: McClure, Julia (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-351-37099-8
- EAN: 9781351370998
- Produktnummer: 34580365
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 12'825 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 34 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 3 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
David Hitchcock is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research focuses on poverty and vagrancy in Britain and the Atlantic world. He is the author of Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 (2016), and is working on a new book-length history of British welfare colonialism.Julia McClure is a Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History at the University of Glasgow. Her research explores the global history of poverty and charity, with a particular focus on the Spanish Empire. She is the author of The Franciscan Invention of the New World (2016), and is working on a new monograph on the moral economy of poverty and the making of the Spanish Empire.
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