Poverty And Sickness In Modern Europe

Author : Andreas Gestrich
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144111081X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe written by Andreas Gestrich and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives.

Author : Robert Jütte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423229
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe written by Robert Jütte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an accessible and authoritative account of poverty and deviance during the early modern period, informed by those perspectives on the role of the poor themselves in the provision of welfare services characteristic of much recent social history. Robert Jütte shows how the notions of poverty and social deviance that preoccupied much contemporary thought saw their ultimate fruition in the systematic programmes for social welfare that emerged during the nineteenth century. Contrary to the once-traditional historical emphasis on the ameliorative role of individual reformers, Professor Jütte's account looks much more closely at the poor themselves, and the complex network of social and communal relationships they inhabited. He examines the lives not only of poor relief recipients but of the vast number of destitute individuals who had to find other means to stay alive, and how these people shaped their own patterns of survival within given communities.

Author : Thomas Riis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Poverty in Early Modern Europe written by Thomas Riis and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hitchcock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351370987
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800 written by David Hitchcock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800 is 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. By exploring poverty and the poor across early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.

Author : Andreas Gestrich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441163603
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe written by Andreas Gestrich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare systems operated. By foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central sentiments of the relief system and the core experiences of those under its care. What emerges is a demonstration that how a relief system treated its sick poor and how those sick poor were able to navigate the system tells us more about welfare history than analysis of any other group.

Author : Inga Brandes
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039102563
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being poor in modern Europe written by Inga Brandes and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.

Author : Frank Huisman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319028
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Citizenship written by Frank Huisman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide.

Author : Andreas Gestrich
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Poor in Modern Europe written by Andreas Gestrich and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.

Author : Beate Althammer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178533137X
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescuing the Vulnerable written by Beate Althammer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization—challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on three representative populations—neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed—it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe.

Author : Andreas Gestrich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192867841
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty in Modern Europe written by Andreas Gestrich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty in Modern Europe explores the spatial dimensions of poverty in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. Its essays focus on a variety of regional, local, and institutional settings and apply different approaches and methods, such as micro history, historical geography, network analysis, and the study of political and academic expert discourses. They are grouped into four sections. The first concentrates on the question of how it was that within the same national legal framework, poverty could be administered and experienced so differently at regional and local levels. Although the discussion of 'welfare regionalism' has been accepted as an important perspective in both the social sciences and social history, it has not resulted in many comparative studies or produced a valid framework for comparisons. The following three sections ask how urban and rural spaces of poverty were constructed by political, academic, and administrative discourses and how 'localities' of poor relief were experienced by the poor. Many essays look into the spatial dimensions of processes of inclusion and exclusion. They examine the role played by institutions (such as workhouses) and by social networks (such as families and neighbourhoods), and are particularly interested in what has frequently, albeit not uncontroversially, been termed the 'agency' of the poor and its spatial dimensions. The volume tests different approaches in different countries and suggests a number of aspects and yardsticks to consider when comparing regional or local differences. While the main geographical focus is on English-speaking and German-speaking Europe, the volume also contains comparative perspectives on France and Russia.