The poor in England 1700-1850

An economy of makeshifts
Herausgeber: King, Steve; Tomkins, Alannah

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor made ends meet. This book attempts to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with an empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive definition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080432
• ISBN-10: 0719080436
• Artikelnr.: 27382459

Autorenporträt

Steven King is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. Alannah Tomkins is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Keele

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Alannah Tomkins and Steven King 2. 'Not by bread only'? Common right, parish relief and endowed charity in a forest economy, c.1600
1800
Steve Hindle 3. The economy of makeshifts and the poor law: a game of chance?
Margaret Hanly 4. 'Agents in their own concerns'? Charity and the economy of makeshifts in eighteenth
century Britain
Sarah Lloyd 5. Crime, criminal networks and the survival strategies of the poor in early eighteenth century London
Heather Shore 6. Pawnbroking and the survival strategies of the urban poor in 1770s York
Alannah Tomkins 7. Kinship, poor relief and the welfare process in early modern England
Sam Barrett 8. Making the most of opportunity: the economy of makeshifts in the early modern north
Steve King 9. Conclusion
Steve King and Alannah Tomkins Index