Accommodating poverty: the housing and living arrangements of the English poor, c. 1600-1850

This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poorhouseholds in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to widerinvestigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century. JOANNE MCEWAN recently completed her PhD at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Her thesis was on women, crime and support networks in eighteenth and early nineteenth century London. She is an editor for the postgraduate journal 'Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies' and has presented papers on lodgers in London and community participation in legal processes. PAMELA SHARPE is Professor of History at the University of Tasmania and previously worked at the University of Western Australia, Australia. Among her other publications are 'Chronicling Poverty: the Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640-1840', edited with Tim Hitchcock and Peter King, which was the forerunner to Accommodating Poverty. INDICE: List of Illustrations, Tables and Figures - Preface - List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Accommodating Poverty: The Housing andLiving Arrangements of the English Poor, c.1600-1850; 'P.Sharpe' & 'J.McEwan - 'PART I: THE VALUE OF ACCOMMODATION - 'Turned into the Street with my Children Destitute of Every Thing'; The Payment of Rent and the London Poor, 1600-1850; 'J.Boulton' - The Lodging Exchange: Space, Authority and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century London; 'J.McEwan - 'Heartless and Unhomely? Dwellings of the Poor in East Anglia and North-East England; 'A.Green - 'Joys of the Cottage: Labourers' Houses, Hovels and Huts in Britain and the British Colonies, 1770-1830; 'S.Lloyd - 'PART II: MOBILITY AND HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION - Vagrant Lives; 'T.Hitchcock - 'The Residential and Familial Arrangements of English Pauper Letter Writers, 1800-1840s; 'S.King' - Labour Discipline, Agricultural Service andthe Households of the Poor in Rural England, c.1640-1730; 'S.Hindle' - 'I wasforced to leave my place to hide my shame': The Living Arrangements of Unmarried Mothers in London in the Early Nineteenth Century; 'S.K.Williams' - PART III: PAROCHIAL RELIEF AND CHARITY - 'The Comforts of a Private Fireside'? The Workhouse, the Elderly and the Poor Law in Georgian Westminster: St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1725-1824; 'J.Boulton' & 'L.Schwarz' - The Parish Poor House in theLong Eighteenth Century; 'J.Broad - 'Retirement from the Noise and Hurry of the World?: The Experience of Almshouse Life; 'A.Tomkins' - Select Bibliography- Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-54242-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido