| Description |
xi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
New approaches to European history ; 35 |
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New approaches to European history ; 35.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography and index. |
| Contents |
The revolutionary era, 1770-1815 -- Population and poverty -- Rural society and the problems of poverty -- Working in the cities -- Life in the cities -- Charity and welfare . |
| Summary |
This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying particular attention to the texture of women's everyday lives. She shows their strength as they attempted to structure a life and set of relationships within a social order, culture, community, and the law. Also includes information on childbirth, children, contraception, crime, disease, education, family, housing, laws, marriage, migration, mortality, mothers, mortality, Poor Laws (England), poor relief, prostitution, sex and sexuality, welfare, etc. |
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Vrouwen.
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Europa.
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Armoede.
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Cahiers Sociale geschiedenis.
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Europe -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
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Europe -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Soziale Situation.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Subject |
Wirtschaftliche Lage.
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Poor women. (OCoLC)fst01071229
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Armoede.
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Vrouwen.
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Poor women -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Frau.
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Poor -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Sociale geschiedenis.
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Armut.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Subject |
Poor. (OCoLC)fst01071040
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Geschlechterrolle.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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| Subject |
Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
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| ISBN |
052162102X |
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0521629268 (paperback) |
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9780521621021 |
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9780521629263 |
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