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The Birmingham Parish Workhouse, 1730-1840
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University Of Hertfordshire Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. The Birmingham Poor Law; 2. 'The residence of a gentleman': The Birmingham Workhouse; 3. A Day in the Life; 4. Putting Names to the Nameless Poor; 5. The Ghost of a Workhouse; 6. Managing the Poor: The Overseers and Guardians; 7. Thirty Acres and a Cow: The Use of Birmingham's Parish Land; 8. Managing the Poor: Masters, Matrons and Clerks; 9. Birmingham's First Hospital: The Workhouse Infirmary; 10. The Doings of Death; 11. The Asylum for the Infant Poor
- 12. 'Bitter, unbroken lamentation'?: The Treatment of the Mentally Ill Pauper13. Putting the Poor to Work; Afterword
- Ian Cawood; Appendix; Bibliography; Index