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The poor in England 1700-1850 : an economy of makeshifts / edited by Steven King and Alannah Tomkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--England--History--18th century.
- Poor.
- Poor--England--History--19th century.
- Charity--History.
- Charity.
- Income--England--History.
- Income.
- Public welfare--England--History.
- Public welfare.
- Social networks--England--History.
- Social networks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 pages) : figures, maps (black and white), charts; digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Economy of makeshifts
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2003.
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing
- Contents:
- Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction (Alannah Tomkins and Steven King); 2 'Not by bread only'? Common right, parish relief and endowed charity in a forest economy, c. 1600-1800 (Steve Hindle); 3 The economy of makeshifts and the role of the poor law: a game of chance? (Margaret Hanly); 4 'Agents in their own concerns'? Charity and the economy of makeshifts in eighteenth-century Britain (Sarah Lloyd); 5 Crime, criminal networks and the survival strategies of the poor in early eighteenth-century London (Heather Shore)
- 6 Pawnbroking and the survival strategies of the urban poor in 1770's York (Alannah Tomkins)7 Kinship, poor relief and the welfare process in early modern England (Sam Barrett); 8 Making the most of opportunity: the economy of makeshifts in the early modern north (Steven King); 9 Conclusion (Steven King and Alannah Tomkins); Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-73413-2
- 9786610734139
- 1-84779-066-6
- 1-4237-0638-2
- OCLC:
- 559816950
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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