Charity, Self-Interest and Welfare in Britain: 1500 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781138970182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 276 str.

Martin Daunton

Opis

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

The Neale Colloquium in British History, Notes on contributors, 1 Introduction, 2 Charity, self-interest and welfare: reflections from demographic and family history, 3 Some recent trends in the history of charity, 4 Charity and poor relief in early modern Italy, 5 Aged and impotent: parish relief of the aged poor in early modern Suffolk, 6 Old people and their families in the English past, 7 The “mixed economy of welfare” in early modern England: assessments of the options from Hale to Malthus (c. 1683–1803), 8 “Grasping gratitude”: charity and hospital finance in late-Victorian London, 9 Women, social work and social welfare in twentieth-century Britain: from (unpaid) influence to (paid) oblivion?, 10 Risk, redistribution and social welfare in Britain from the poor law to Beveridge, 11 Some concluding reflections, Index

O autorze

Martin Daunton