Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England: The Old Poor Law Tradition


Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England: The Old Poor Law Tradition
Social Welfare in Pre-industrial England: The Old Poor Law Tradition by Paul A. Fideler

Crossing period boundaries separating late medieval, early modern, and long eighteenth-century England, Paul A. Fideler offers a coherent overview of parish-centered social welfare from its medieval roots, through its institutionalisation in the Elizabethan Poor Law, to its demise in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.

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