Children of the laboring poor : expectation and experience among the orphans of early modern Augsburg /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

This volume provides fascinating new insights into the agency of the laboring poor in early modern Europe. Based on more than 5,000 biographical accounts of orphans in the city of Augsburg, it explores their responses to changing social and economic circumstances and their utilization of social inst...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Safley, Thomas Max
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Colección:Studies in Central European histories ; v. 38.
Temas:
Geschichte 1572-1806.
Orphans > Germany > Augsburg > Social conditions.
Poor children > Germany > Augsburg > Social conditions.
Orphanages > Germany > Augsburg > History.
Enfants pauvres > Allemagne > Augsbourg > Conditions sociales.
Orphelinats > Allemagne > Augsbourg > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Orphanages
Orphans > Social conditions
Poor children > Social conditions
Waisenkind
Soziale Situation
Armut
Germany > Augsburg
Augsburg
Orphans.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Note on Money; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Death and Adaptation; Chapter Two. Debt, "Presentism," and Traditionalism; Chapter Three. Resourcefulness, Calculation, and Rationalism; Chapter Four. Negotiation and Admission; Chapter Five. The Disciplining of Appetites; Chapter Six. The Disciplining of Spirits; Chapter Seven. Disciplining the Laborer; Chapter Eight. Death and the Servant: Leaving the Orphanages; Chapter Nine. A Return to the Margin?; Chapter Ten. A Place in the Mainstream?; Conclusion: The Worm in the Apple; Bibliography; Index.

Ejemplares similares