ISBN: 9781108036870 - the state of the poor: or, an history of the labouring classes in england, from the conquest to the present period volume 1 (cambridge library collection - history, band 1) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Published in 1797, this three-volume work describes poverty in England and the various measures introduced to deal with it. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General. Num Pages: 678 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1600. . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Sir Frederick Morton Eden (1766-1809) was an English writer and a pioneer social researcher. Eden studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and subsequently worked in banking and insurance, inheriting a baronetcy from his father, who had been the governor of the American province of Maryland, in 1784. Arguing that poverty could not be tackled without knowing what it actually meant to be poor, this innovative three-volume work is an attempt to define what poverty meant in concrete terms. It is packed with data from across England, divided by county, and covering factors such as food prices, wages, diet and mortality rates. In Volume 1, Eden looks at the history of poverty, the lifestyles of the poor and the various measures introduced to tackle the problem at different periods. It also describes the methods used to collect the data that appear throughout the three volumes.…