Charity and Poverty in England, C.1680-1820: Wild and Visionary Schemes

Hardback

Main Details

Title Charity and Poverty in England, C.1680-1820: Wild and Visionary Schemes
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sarah Lloyd
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreBritish and Irish History
ISBN/Barcode 9780719078835
ClassificationsDewey:362.557094209033
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Further/Higher Education
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 22 December 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief. Whether discussing proposals for vast inland colonies or cosy firesides, men and women demonstrated that imagination, excitement and experiment were as important as systematic argument in making early-modern social policy. Ceremonies and material objects encapsulated ideas and attracted supporters; energy poured into realising imagined prospects in buildings, streetscapes and landscapes across England and beyond. Charity and Poverty in England aims to shed fresh light on ideas and lived experience, on cultural worlds in which social relations were unevenly worked out. It analyses the settings in which gentlemen, magistrates, officials, pamphleteers, ladies and neighbours reacted to the poverty of others, and poor people asserted their own beliefs and experiences. The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of eighteenth-century cultural history and the history of social policy. -- .

Author Biography

Sarah Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire -- .