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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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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.