Naomi Tadmor

The Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660-1780

Law, Society, and State Formation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108499194
• ISBN-10: 1108499198
• Artikelnr.: 67173124

Autorenporträt

Naomi Tadmor is Professor of History at the University of Lancaster and Chair of the Social History Society. She is co-editor of The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (1996) and author of Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (2001), and The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England (2010), all published by Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Birth of Settlement
2. The Settlement of the Poor and the Rise of the Form
3. Kinship, Community, and Settlement
4. Governance, Gender, Social Status, and Settlement: or, Where Was Mrs Turner?
5. The Settlement of the Fiscal-Military State
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography.