Author: Legh RichmondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Annals of the Poor ... Enlarged and Illustrated Edition
Author: Legh RichmondAnnals of the Poor, Or Narratives of The Dairyman's Daughter, The Negro Servant, and The Young Cottager
Author: Legh RichmondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
Author: Alan KiddPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349276138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. A hundred years ago, most working-class households avoided or coped with poverty without recourse to the state. The Poor Law after 1834 offered little more than a 'safety net' for the poorest, and much welfare was organised through charitable societies, self-help institutions and mutual-aid networks. Rather than look for the origins of modern provision, the author casts a searching light on the practices, ideology and outcomes of nineteenth-century welfare. This original and stimulating study, based upon a wealth of scholarship, is essential reading for all students of poverty and welfare. It also contains much to interest a wider readership.
Lincoln
Author: David Herbert DonaldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068482535X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Draws extensively on Lincoln's personal papers and legal writings to present a biography of the president.
Annals of the Labouring Poor
Author: K. D. M. SnellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521335584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Levels of employment, wage rates, welfare relief, sexual divisions of labor, apprenticeship patterns and seasonal economic fluctuations are included in this reassessment of the standard of living of rural labor during this period of England's industrialization.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Author: Thomas GrayPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain
Author: Joseph StubenrauchPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191086134
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain argues that British evangelicals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries invented new methods of spreading the gospel, as well as new forms of personal religious practice, by exploiting the era's growth of urbanization, industrialization, consumer goods, technological discoveries, and increasingly mobile populations. While evangelical faith has often been portrayed standing in inherent tension with the transitions of modernity, Joseph Stubenrauch demonstrates that developments in technology, commerce, and infrastructure were fruitfully linked with theological shifts and changing modes of religious life. This volume analyzes a vibrant array of religious consumer and material culture produced during the first half of the nineteenth century. Mass print and cheap mass-produced goods--from tracts and ballad sheets to teapots and needlework mottoes--were harnessed to the evangelical project. By examining ephemera and decorations alongside the strategies of evangelical publishers and benevolent societies, Stubenrauch considers often overlooked sources in order to take the pulse of "vital" religion during an age of upheaval. He explores why and how evangelicals turned to the radical alterations of their era to bolster their faith and why "serious Christianity" flowered in an industrial age that has usually been deemed inhospitable to it.
Annals of Cleveland
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
The Annals of Philosophy
Author: Victorian Biography Reconsidered
Author: Juliette AtkinsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199572135
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Through an examination of numerous biographies, from the lives of working-class scientists to minor women writers, Victorian Biography Reconsidered examines how and why nineteenth-century biographers challenged the contemporary obsession with 'Great Men' and brought to public attention the lives of neglected or unknown men and women.