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The Uses of Charity : the Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis /
Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth-century city, emphasizing the position of women and children and the importance of charity and w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Poverty and Charity in the Nineteenth- Century Metropolis: An Introduction
- 2. "Total Institutions" and the Survival Strategies of the Laboring Poor in Antwerp, 1770-1860
- 3. The Survival of the Unfit: Welfare Policies and Family Maintenance in Nineteenth-Century London
- 4. Preserving the Future of France: Aid to the Poor and Pregnant in Nineteenth-Century Paris
- 5. Waifs and Strays: Child Abandonment, Foster Care, and Families in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
- 6. Hungry Children: Housewives and London Charity, 1870-1918
- 7. To Give and to Receive: Philanthropy and Collective Responsibility Among Jews in Paris, 1880-1914
- 8. The History of an Impudent Poor Woman in New York City from 1918 to 1923
- Contributors
- Index