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Containing the Poor : The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871 /

In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House--the centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In Containing the Poor Silvia Marina Arro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Arrom, Silvia Marina, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The problem of beggars and vagrants, 1774-1871
  • The foundation of the poor house
  • The experiment in practice, 1774-1805
  • Reform of the poor house, 1806-1811
  • Independence and decline, 1811-1823
  • Republican difficulties, 1824-1855
  • La reforma, reorganization, and crisis, 1856-1863
  • Recovery during the second empire, 1863-1867
  • The liberals return, 1867-1871.