Poverty, gender and life-cycle under the English poor law, 1760-1834 /
Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these fi...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
| منشور في: |
Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. :
Boydell & Brewer
2011.
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| سلاسل: | Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.cttn34br |
| الملخص: | Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these final decades of the old Poor Law. It takes as a case study the lived experience of poor families in two Bedfordshire communities, Campton and Shefford, and contrasts it with the perspectives of other participants in parish politics, from the magistracy to the vestry, and from overseers to village rat. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages :) : illustrations, map. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9781782040071 1782040072 9780861933143 0861933141 |
| تدمد: | 0269-2244 |