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Subject(s)

• Poverty—Europe—History [Browse]
• Poor—Europe—History [Browse]
• Poor—Europe—Social conditions [Browse]
• Europe—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Europe—History—1648-1789 [Browse]
• Europe—History—1492-1648 [Browse]

Editor

• Hitchcock, David J. [Browse]
• McClure, Julia [Browse]

Series

• Routledge histories. [More in this series]
• The Routledge histories

Summary note

"A pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty in history which accounts for much more than economic and social circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and detailed case studies."-- PDF half title page.

Bibliographic references

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Further reading": pages 364-370.

Source of description

Description based on online resource (Taylor & Francis Group, viewed on January 25, 2022); title from PDF title page.

Contents

• Introduction: Poverty in early modern history / David Hitchcock and Julia McClure
• The regulation of charity and the rise of the state / Joanna Innes
• The economic history of poverty, 1450-1800 / Guido Alfani
• Poverty and empire / Julia McClure
• The vagrant poor / David Hitchcock
• Poverty and environment in early modern England / John Emrys Morgan
• Losing wealth : debt and downward mobility in eighteenth-century England / Tawny Paul
• Poor bodies and disease / Kevin Siena
• Motives of control/motifs of creativity : the visual imagery of poverty in early modern Europe / Tom Nichols
• The worthiest to be relieved : disabled veterans in England, c. 1580-1630 / Abby Lagemann
• Consumption and material culture of poverty in early-modern Europe, c.1450-1800 / Joseph Harley
• Institutional care for the sick and aged poor in later medieval England / Carole Rawcliffe
• Poverty and the workhouse / Alannah Tomkins
• Relief for the body, comfort for the soul : the case of Portuguese misericórdias / Sara Pinto
• Architecture in relief : hospitals for the poor in Venice and Lisbon / Danielle Abdon
• Peddling and the makeshift economy / Rosa Salzberg
• Poverty, law and labour in the Ottoman Empire / Hayri Gökşin Özkoray
• Spas for the sick poor in the early modern British Atlantic world / Amanda Herbert
• Barefoot children in a 'fine room' : Robert Owen, Adam Smith, and social regeneration in Scotland / Cornelia Lambert.

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ISBN

• 1-315-14927-3
• 1-351-37098-7

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