Sökresultat för: Alan Kidd
State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-century England (Inbunden)
avAlan Kidd
ISBN: 9780333632536 - UTGIVEN: 199907Today, 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 we[...]
Manchester (Pocket)
avAlan Kidd
ISBN: 9781859361283 - UTGIVEN: 2012-09Every town and city has its story, but few have a history which belongs to the world. A process of phenomenal economic and industrial growth, which began just over two centuries ago, was to put this hitherto remote Lancashire town - 'the greatest mere village in England', as Defoe famously called it[...]
