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Samantha A. Shave - Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780-1850 - 9780719089633 - V9780719089633
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Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780-1850

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Description for Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780-1850 Hardback. .
Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. Important new research is presented on the adoption and implementation of 'enabling acts' at the end of the old poor laws; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. Pointing towards a new direction ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719089633
SKU
V9780719089633
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Samantha A. Shave
Samantha A. Shave is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Lincoln -- .

Reviews for Pauper Policies: Poor Law Practice in England, 1780-1850
'Pauper policies presents exciting new research on the English Poor Laws before and after the Amendment Act of 1834. This original study of an institution that lay at the heart of life for many centuries is empirically rich and analytically engaging. Shave's book provides a superb example of how painstaking archival work opens the possibility of deeper understanding of a ... Read more

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