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Poverty, gender and life-cycle under the English poor law, 1760-1834 /

Social welfare, increasingly extensive during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was by the first third of the nineteenth under considerable, and growing, pressure, during a "crisis" period when levels of poverty soared. This book examines the poor and their families during these fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Samantha, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell & Brewer, 2011.
Series:Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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Online Access:Texto completo