The pauper's freedom : crime and poverty in nineteenth-century Quebec / Jean-Marie Fecteau ; translated by Peter Feldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fecteau, Jean-Marie.

Series:

Studies on the history of Quebec ; 32.

Studies on the history of Quebec ; 32

Standardized Title:

Liberté du pauvre

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Québec (Province)--History--19th century.

Poverty.

Crime--Québec (Province)--History--19th century.

Crime.

Liberalism--Québec (Province)--History--19th century.

Liberalism.

Social control--Québec (Province)--History--19th century.

Social control.

History.

Québec (Province)--Social policy--History--19th century.

Québec (Province).

Social policy.

Québec.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 408 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Contents:

The regulation of poverty and crime in nineteenth-century Quebec

Freedom, state, and individual : the shifting patterns of nineteenth-century liberal regulation

The regulation of crime and poverty : the old system in crisis

The administration of crime and the vicissitudes of liberalism

The regulation of juvenile delinquency and child protection

Poverty as ethics

Church and religion in the charity economy.

Notes:

Translation of: La liberté du pauvre : sur la régulation du crime et de la pauvreté au XIXe siècle québécois / Jean-Marie Fecteau. -- Messageries ADP, 955, rue Amherst, Montréal, QC H2L 3K4. -- Montréal : VLB, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773549470

0773549471

9780773549487

077354948X

OCLC:

971267437