Keywords:
Charity, History
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Electronic books
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Income, History, England
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Poor, History, England
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Public welfare, History, England
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Social networks, History, England
Notes:
Introduction /Alannah Tomkins,Steven King --'Not by bread only'? Common right, parish relief and endowed charity in a forest economy, c. 1600-1800 /Steve Hindle --Economy of makeshifts and the poor law: a game of chance? /Margaret Hanly --'Agents in their own concerns'? Charity and the economy of makeshifts in eighteenth-century Britain /Sarah Lloyd --Crime, criminal networks and the survival strategies of the poor in early eighteenth-century London /Heather Shore --Pawnbroking and the survival strategies of the urban poor in 1770s York /Alannah Tomkins --Kinship, poor relief and the welfare process in early modern England /Sam Barrett --Making the most of opportunity: the economy of makeshifts in the early modern north /Steven King --Conclusion /Steven King,Alannah Tomkins.
Pages:
x, 285 p.
ISBN:
1-423-70638-2
URL:
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=133639
