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Obligation, entitlement and dispute under the English poor laws /
With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often thought of as essentially "modern": How should the state support those in work but who do not earn enough to get by? How should c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Obligation, entitlement and dispute : navigating the English Poor Laws 1600-1900 / Peter Jones and Steven King
- "The charity of our life and healthful years"? : approaches to inter-vivos charitable giving to the poor in the metropolis 1600-1720 / Jeremy Boulton
- From petition to pauper letter : the development of an epistolary form / Peter Jones and Steven King
- Families, wheat prices and the allowance cycle : poverty and poor relief in the agricultural community of Ardleigh 1794-1801 / Thomas Sokoll
- Poverty, kinship support and the case of Ellen Parker 1818-1827 / Alannah Tomkins
- Widows, work and wantonness : pauper letters and the boundaries of entitlement under the Old Poor Law / Peter Jones
- Parish women : maternity and the limitations of maiden settlement in England 1662-1834 / Pamela Sharpe
- The geography of poor relief in rural Oxfordshire 1775-1832 / John Langton
- The rights of the poor and the role of the law : the impact of pauper appeals to the summary courts 1750-1834 / Peter King
- Rights, duties and practice in the transition between the Old and New Poor Laws 1820s-1860s / Steven King
- "World without welfare" : pauper perspectives on medical care under the late-Victorian poor law 1870-1900 / Elizabeth Hurren.