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Poverty and welfare in England, 1700-1850 : a regional perspective / Steven King.
Lippincott Library HC260.P6 K56 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Steven, 1966-
- Series:
- Manchester studies in modern history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--England--History.
- Poverty.
- Public welfare--England--History.
- Public welfare.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the United States by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- 2 Poverty and welfare: the legal framework 18
- 3 The welfare debate 48
- 4 Defining and measuring poverty 77
- 5 Alternative worlds of poverty 111
- 6 Welfare in the south and east, 1700-1820 141
- 7 Welfare in the north and west, 1700-1820 181
- 8 Welfare under the new poor law, 1821-50 227
- 9 Conclusion: old and new perspectives in welfare history 254
- Appendix 1 Places 270
- Appendix 2 A legal chronology of the poor laws 272.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719049393
- 0719049407
- OCLC:
- 43434661
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