Writing the lives of the English poor, 1750s -1830s / Steven King.

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"Tracing the experiences of poor people through their own words, Writing the Lives of the English Poor offers a history of the Old Poor Law from below. Steven King shifts attention from traditional approaches to welfare history, broadly 'who got what, when,' and reconstructs the process by which the...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:States, people, and the history of social change ; 1.
Main Author: King, Steven, 1966- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Series:States, people, and the history of social change ; 1.
Subjects:
Poor > England > Correspondence.
Poor > England > History > 18th century.
Poor > England > History > 19th century.
Public welfare > England > History > 18th century.
Public welfare > England > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social policy.
England > Social conditions > 18th century.
England > Social conditions > 19th century.
Pauvres > Angleterre > Correspondance.
Pauvres > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Pauvres > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Aide sociale > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Aide sociale > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Poor.
Public welfare.
Social conditions.
Social policy.
England.
Great Britain.
Armut.
1700-1899
History.
Records and correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Genre:
Correspondence.
Correspondance.
History.
Records and correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Physical Description:xviii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Issued also in electronic format.
Format: Book

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