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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Billy G Smith |
| ISBN: | 0271023163 9780271023168 0271023171 9780271023175 |
| OCLC Number: | 53223579 |
| Notes: | Three of the eleven papers in this volume were presented at a session held at the 1997 Organization of American Historians meeting. |
| Description: | xx, 327 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: "The best poor man's country?" / Billy G. Smith -- Poverty and politics in early American history / Gary B. Nash -- Dead bodies : poverty and death in early national Philadelphia / Simon Newman -- Malthusian miseries and the working poor in Philadelphia, 1780-1830 : gender and infant mortality / Susan E. Klepp -- Slaves and poverty / Philip D. Morgan -- "Who died an expence to this town" : poor relief in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Ruth Wallis Herndon -- Gender and the political economy of poor relief in colonial Philadelphia / Karin Wulf -- Poor relief "without violating the rights of humanity" : almshouse administration in the Philadelphia region, 1790-1860 / Monique Bourque -- Bound by charity : the abandoned children of late eighteenth-century Charleston / John E. Murray -- Poverty and politics in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas Humphrey -- "God helps those who help themselves" : religious explanations of poverty in colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1776 / J. Richard Olivas -- The Delaware Indians and poverty in colonial New Jersey / Jean R. Soderlund. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Billy G. Smith. |
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