The Uses of Charity : : The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis / / Peter Mandler.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) :; 2 illus. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Poverty and Charity in the Nineteenth- Century Metropolis: An Introduction -- 2. “Total Institutions” and the Survival Strategies of the Laboring Poor in Antwerp, 1770-1860 -- 3. The Survival of the Unfit: Welfare Policies and Family Maintenance in Nineteenth-Century London -- 4. Preserving the Future of France: Aid to the Poor and Pregnant in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- 5. Waifs and Strays: Child Abandonment, Foster Care, and Families in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York -- 6. Hungry Children: Housewives and London Charity, 1870-1918 -- 7. To Give and to Receive: Philanthropy and Collective Responsibility Among Jews in Paris, 1880-1914 -- 8. The History of an Impudent Poor Woman in New York City from 1918 to 1923 -- Contributors -- Index |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781512804102 9783110442526 |
DOI: | 10.9783/9781512804102 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Peter Mandler. |