Charity, Self-Interest And Welfare In Britain: 1500 To The PresentMartin Daunton First published in 1996. These essays present a statement on the long-term development of welfare policy in Britain. Relating to current issues such as the cost of pensions, this work examines provisions for the poor, infirm and aged over four centuries of British history. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
reflections from demographic and family history | 18 |
3 Some recent trends in the history of charity | 38 |
4 Charity and poor relief in early modern Italy | 48 |
parish relief of the aged poor in early modern Suffolk | 67 |
6 Old people and their families in the English past | 84 |
assessments of the options from Hale to Malthus c 16831803 | 104 |
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Charity, Self-Interest And Welfare In Britain: 1500 To The Present Martin Daunton Limited preview - 2005 |
Charity, Self-Interest And Welfare In Britain: 1500 To The Present Martin Daunton No preview available - 1996 |
Charity, Self-interest and Welfare in Britain: 1500 to the Present Martin Daunton No preview available - 2016 |
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