Metropolitan Poor

Name: Metropolitan Poor
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Semifactual Accounts, 1795–1910

AvJohn Marriott

Taylor & Francis Ltd

1999

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Beskrivning

This is a collection of primary materials on the metropolitan poor. It includes the writings of urban travellers and social reformers, and contains writings from the last five years of the 18th century, that is, from the time when the poor were first discovered as endemic to the nation.

Produktinformation

Märke:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Utgivningsdatum:1999-12-01
Höjd:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:7 900 g
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:2 536
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN:9781851965243

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Mer om författaren

John Marriott is Senior Lecturer in History, Department of Cultural Studies at the University of East London Masaie Matsumura is Professor and Dean of the Graduate School, Otemae College, Nishinomiya, Japan

Recensioner i media

'provides a formidable resource for students and teachers of nineteenth-century crime, policing, poverty and social policy.' Urban History 'An extraordinarily rich archive of testimony to economic and social destitution in Victorian London... What it offers, both in its raw record of social conditions and in its formal heterogeneity, is essentially the matrix of so much of Dickens' work as both novelist and journalist.' The Dickensian

Innehållsförteckning

Volume 1 Introduction and Preface, The Age of Inquiry, 1795-1850, Volume 2 Wandering Tribes, 1850-1885, Volume 3 People of the Abyss, 1885-1910, Volume 4 The Soule of Londa, 1905-1908, The Million Peopled City, 1815-1855, Volume 5 Heathenism at Home, 1855-1880, Volume 6 In Darkest England, 1880-1900, Index