Details

Subject(s)

• Poor laws—Great Britain [Browse]
• Public welfare—Great Britain—History [Browse]

Series

• Studies in social history (Routledge & Kegan Paul) [More in this series]
• Studies in social history

Summary note

This is a study of the ideas and attitudes expressed in the extensive literature on poverty, pauperism and relief published in England between the 1790s and the 1830s. It describes, analyses and explains the recorded attitudes in that period to poverty as a social phenomenon.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

• Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, April 10, 2019).
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ISBN

• 9781487579609 ((electronic bk.))
• 1487579608 ((electronic bk.))

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