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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. :
Boydell & Brewer,
2011.
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| Series: | Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
