Settlement of the Poor in England, C.16601780 - Law, Society, and State Formation

List of contents

List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Birth of Settlement; 2. The Settlement of the Poor and the Rise of the Form; 3. Kinship, Community, and Settlement; 4. Governance, Gender, Social Status, and Settlement: or, Where Was Mrs Turner?; 5. The Settlement of the Fiscal-Military State; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography.

About the author

Naomi Tadmor is Professor of History at the University of Lancaster and Chair of the Social History Society. She is co-editor of The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (1996) and author of Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (2001), and The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England (2010), all published by Cambridge.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Tadmor, Naomi (Lancaster University) Tadmor, Tadmor Naomi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.03.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781108499194
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49919-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Social & cultural history, Social groups, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Migration, immigration & emigration, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, 1660 to 1714 (Restoration and the Later Stuart period), Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, Social groups, communities and identities