The Old Poor Law in Scotland : : The Experience of Poverty, 1574-1845 /

The Old Poor Law in Scotland : : The Experience of Poverty, 1574-1845 / / Rosalind Mitchison.

Based entirely on research from primary sources, this book describes the development of the Scottish Poor Law as an instrument for the preservation of the old and destitute and, partially, as a protection against famine. It shows the effect of the Poor Law of the later Eighteenth Century agrarian re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Mitchison, Rosalind,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2000
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Author’s note
  • Introduction
  • 1. Getting started
  • 2. Problems and achievements, 1650-1700
  • 3. Law and uncertainty, 1700-1770
  • 4. Resources
  • 5. The poor and their support
  • 6. Changing dogmas
  • 7. Post-war discomfort and debate
  • 8. The need for reform
  • 9. The end of the Old Poor Law
  • 10. How the poor lived
  • Bibliography
  • Map: The Scottish Counties in the nineteenth century
  • Glossary
  • Index

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