From Artisans To Paupers

Author : David R. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018224720

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From Artisans to Paupers by David R. Green Pdf

An account of the impact of economic change on social polarization and the provision of welfare in 19th-century London. Presents micro-scale studies of individual neighborhoods and trades within the context of long-term economic and geographical change within the capital, linking the everyday activities of London's working class with broader and long-term processes that shaped the city's social, economic, and administrative structures. For urban, economic, and social historians as well as geographers seeking to understand rapid urban change. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David R. Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317082927

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Pauper Capital by David R. Green Pdf

Few measures, if any, could claim to have had a greater impact on British society than the poor law. As a comprehensive system of relieving those in need, the poor law provided relief for a significant proportion of the population but influenced the behaviour of a much larger group that lived at or near the margins of poverty. It touched the lives of countless numbers of individuals not only as paupers but also as ratepayers, guardians, officials and magistrates. This system underwent significant change in the nineteenth century with the shift from the old to the new poor law. The extent to which changes in policy anticipated new legislation is a key question and is here examined in the context of London. Rapid population growth and turnover, the lack of personal knowledge between rich and poor, and the close proximity of numerous autonomous poor law authorities created a distinctly metropolitan context for the provision of relief. This work provides the first detailed study of the poor law in London during the period leading up to and after the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources the book focuses explicitly on the ways in which those involved with the poor law - both as providers and recipients - negotiated the provision of relief. In the context of significant urban change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, it analyses the poor law as a system of institutions and explores the material and political processes that shaped relief policies.

Author : Pamela Dale,Joseph Melling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134218165

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Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850 by Pamela Dale,Joseph Melling Pdf

Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary sector. Questioning the notion that institutions were generally ‘benign’ and responsive to the needs of households, this work also emphasizes the important role of the diversity of interests in shaping institutional facilities. A fresh, stimulating step forward in the history of institutional care, Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850 is undoubtedly an important resource for student and scholar alike.

Author : Roy Porter,David Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139439626

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The Confinement of the Insane by Roy Porter,David Wright Pdf

The rise of the asylum constitutes one of the most profound, and controversial, events in the history of medicine. Academics around the world have begun to direct their attention to the origins of the confinement of those deemed 'insane', exploring patient records in an attempt to understand the rise of the asylum within the wider context of social and economic change of nations undergoing modernisation. Originally published in 2003, this edited volume brings together thirteen original research papers to answer key questions in the history of asylums. What forces led to the emergence of mental hospitals in different national contexts? To what extent did patient populations vary in terms of their psychiatric profile and socio-economic background? What was the role of families, communities and the medical profession in the confinement process? This volume therefore represents a landmark study in the history of psychiatry by examining asylum confinement in a global context.

Author : Lynn MacKay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317321422

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Respectability and the London Poor, 1780–1870 by Lynn MacKay Pdf

The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the communities of Westminster, MacKay shows that many of the plebeian populace retained traditional working-class pursuits, such as gambling, drinking and blood sports.

Author : E. Hurren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230355651

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Dying for Victorian Medicine by E. Hurren Pdf

The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach to the business of anatomy, Hurren uses remarkable case histories which still echo a vibrant body-business on the internet today in a biomedical age.

Author : Peter Clark,David Michael Palliser,Martin J. Daunton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521431417

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The Cambridge Urban History of Britain by Peter Clark,David Michael Palliser,Martin J. Daunton Pdf

This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.

Author : Marjorie Levine-Clark
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814209561

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Beyond the Reproductive Body by Marjorie Levine-Clark Pdf

Investigates the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England, where government officials and reformers surveying the laboring population became convinced that the female body would be ruined by employment.

Author : Gregory Dart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139536943

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Metropolitan Art and Literature, 1810–1840 by Gregory Dart Pdf

Gregory Dart expands upon existing notions of Cockneys and the 'Cockney School' in the late Romantic period by exploring some of the broader ramifications of the phenomenon in art and periodical literature. He argues that the term was not confined to discussion of the Leigh Hunt circle, but was fast becoming a way of gesturing towards everything in modern metropolitan life that seemed discrepant and disturbing. Covering the ground between Romanticism and Victorianism, Dart presents Cockneyism as a powerful critical currency in this period, which helps provide a link between the works of Leigh Hunt and Keats in the 1810s and the early works of Charles Dickens in the 1830s. Through an examination of literary history, art history, urban history and social history, this book identifies the early nineteenth-century figure of the Cockney as the true ancestor of modernity.

Author : Takashi Ito
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861933211

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London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828-1859 by Takashi Ito Pdf

London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life At the dawn of the Victorian era, London Zoo became one of the metropolis's premier attractions. The crowds drawn to its bear pit included urban promenaders, gentlemen menagerists, Indian shipbuilders and Persian princes - CharlesDarwin himself. This book shows that the impact of the zoo's extensive collection of animals can only be understood in the context of a wide range of contemporary approaches to nature, and that it was not merely as a manifestation of British imperial culture. The author demonstrates how the early history of the zoo illuminates three important aspects of the history of nineteenth-century Britain: the politics of culture and leisure in a new public domain which included museums and art galleries; the professionalisation and popularisation of science in a consumer society; and the meanings of the animal world for a growing urban population. Weaving these threads altogether, hepresents a flexible frame of analysis to explain how the zoo was established, how it pursued its policies of animal collection, and how it responded to changing social conditions. Dr Takashi Ito is Associate Professor in Modern British History, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446477113

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London In The Nineteenth Century by Jerry White Pdf

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.

Author : Peter Clark,Raymond Gillespie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0197262473

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Two Capitals by Peter Clark,Raymond Gillespie Pdf

This is a comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the 16th and early 19th centuries.

Author : Marilyn D. Button,Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786470327

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Victorians and the Case for Charity by Marilyn D. Button,Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen Pdf

This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and painful presence. Each essay examines a different initiative to help the poor. Taking an historical tack, the essayists begin with the royal perspective and move into the responses of Church of England members, Evangelicals, and Roman Catholics; the social engagement of the literati is discussed as well. This collection reflects the real, monetary, spiritual and emotional investments of individuals, public institutions, private charities, and religious groups who struggled to address the needs of the poor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10085945

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The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103050928

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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review by Anonim Pdf