The Solidarities of Strangers
Subtitle: The English Poor Laws and the People, 17001948
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780521030663
Subjects: Poverty; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Western Europe - General; History; History - General History; History: World; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; Legal History; History / Great Britain; Law-Legal History; Poor laws--Great Britain--History; Poor laws--Great Britain--History Poor laws--; Social Science-Poverty; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
First sentence: The poor were a familiar part of the British social landscape in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.