description: Many regard the welfare state as a new solution to an age-old problem. Offering a "simple model" of relief for the poor in pre-industrial Amsterdam, Leeuwen (Netherlands Economic History Archives, Amsterdam) studies which groups provided relief, which groups received aid, and their interdependent social roles. Illustrations show poor and affluent areas of Amsterdam, the dispensing of charity, and how the poor fared (e.g. a beggar woman under arrest, Jewish fish and pickle sellers). Appends an anatomy of charitable power, and a survey of European charity recipients and benefit amounts. Based on an undated doctoral thesis at an unspecified Dutch university. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800-1850
titlecomplete: The Logic of Charity: Amsterdam, 1800-1850
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publisher: Palgrave Macmillan