Being poor in modern Europe
Author: Inga Brandes
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9783039102563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.
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Author: Inga Brandes
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9783039102563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.
Author: Andreas Gestrich
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.
Author: Robert Jütte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-03-31
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521423229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study provides an accessible and authoritative account of poverty and deviance during the early modern period, informed by those perspectives on the role of the poor themselves in the provision of welfare services characteristic of much recent social history. Robert Jütte shows how the notions of poverty and social deviance that preoccupied much contemporary thought saw their ultimate fruition in the systematic programmes for social welfare that emerged during the nineteenth century. Contrary to the once-traditional historical emphasis on the ameliorative role of individual reformers, Professor Jütte's account looks much more closely at the poor themselves, and the complex network of social and communal relationships they inhabited. He examines the lives not only of poor relief recipients but of the vast number of destitute individuals who had to find other means to stay alive, and how these people shaped their own patterns of survival within given communities.
Author: Beate Althammer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-05-01
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 178533137X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization—challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on three representative populations—neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed—it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe.
Author: Andreas Gestrich
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-06-28
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 144111081X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives.
Author: Thomas Riis
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Council of Europe
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9789287173362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe are at a point in history where economic inequalities are more widespread each day. The situation of extreme poverty experienced by the majority of the populations in developing countries ("Third World" countries) often coincides with an absence of democracy and the violation of the most fundamental rights. But in so-called "First World" countries a non-negligible proportion of inhabitants also live in impoverished conditions (albeit mainly "relative" poverty) and are denied their rights. The European situation, which this publication aims to analyse, is painful: the entire continent is afflicted by increasing poverty and consequently by the erosion of living conditions and social conflicts.The economic and financial crisis has resulted in the loss of millions of jobs, and created job insecurity for many still working. Economic insecurity raises social tensions, aggravating xenophobia, for instance. Yet the economic and financial crisis could present a good opportunity to rethink the economic and social system as a whole. Indeed, poverty in modern societies has never been purely a question of lack of wealth. It is therefore urgent today to devise a new discourse on poverty. In pursuit of this goal, the Council of Europe is following up this publication in the framework of the project "Human rights of people experiencing poverty", co-financed by the European Commission.
Author: David Hitchcock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-31
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1351370987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty in history which accounts for much more than economic and social circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and detailed case studies. By exploring poverty and the poor across early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.
Author: Robert Henke
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1609383613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue, Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws and rogue books suggest. Close study of German and Latin beggar catalogues, popular songs performed in Italian piazzas, the Paduan actor-playwright Ruzante, the commedia dell’arte in both Italy and France, and Shakespeare demonstrate how early modern theatre and performance could reveal the gap between official policy and actual practices regarding the poor. The actor-based theatre and performance traditions examined in this study, which persistently explore felt connections between the itinerant actor and the vagabond beggar, evoke the poor through complex and variegated forms of imagination, thought, and feeling. Early modern theatre does not simply reflect the social ills of hunger, poverty, and degradation, but works them through the forms of poverty, involving displacement, condensation, exaggeration, projection, fictionalization, and marginalization. As the critical mass of medieval charity was put into question, the beggar-almsgiver encounter became more like a performance. But it was not a performance whose script was prewritten as the inevitable exposure of the dissembling beggar. Just as people’s attitudes toward the poor could rapidly change from skepticism to sympathy during famines and times of acute need, fictions of performance such as Edgar’s dazzling impersonation of a mad beggar in Shakespeare’s King Lear could prompt responses of sympathy and even radical calls for economic redistribution.
Author: Anne M. Scott
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 1409441083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of scholars working in the medieval and early modern periods. Using new sources - and adopting new approaches to known sources - the authors share insights into the management and the self-management of the poor, and search out aspects of the experience of poverty worthy of note, from which can be traced lasting influences on the continuing understanding and experience of poverty in pre-modern Europe.