Sarah Lloyd

Charity and poverty in England, c.1680-1820

Wild and visionary schemes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 763g
• ISBN-13: 9780719078835
• ISBN-10: 0719078830
• Artikelnr.: 27428410

Autorenporträt

Sarah Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of figures 1. Introduction: acts of imagination 2.
Usefulness and beyond 3. Wild & visionary schemes 4. English oaks: William
Hanbury & Jonas Hanway 5. Charitable things I: memory and spectacle 6.
Charitable things II: food and fashion 7. Cottage conversations: poverty
and manly independence in late eighteenth-century England 8. Conclusions
Index