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This Book Provides A Genuinely Pan-european Analysis Of Pauper Narratives, Focusing On The Experiences Of The Sick Poor In England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland And Wales. The Contributions Highlight The Value Of Pauper Narratives For Exploring The Agency, Rhetoric And Experiences Of The Poor And Sick Poor, Significantly Enhancing Our Understanding Of The Ways In Which National And Regional Welfare Systems Operated. By Foregrounding The Particular Experiences And Strategies Of The Sick Poor, This Volume Helps To Establish And Understand The Central Sentiments Of The Relief System And The Core Experiences Of Those Under Its Care. What Emerges Is A Demonstration That How A Relief System Treated Its Sick Poor And How Those Sick Poor Were Able To Navigate The System Tells Us More About Welfare History Than Analysis Of Any Other Group. -- Publisher's Website. Narratives Of Poverty And Sickness In Europe 1780-1938 : Sources, Methods And Experiences / Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren And Steven King -- Grief, Sickness And Emotions In The Narratives Of The Shamefaced Poor In Late Eighteenth-century Copenhagen / Peter Wessel Hansen -- 'labouri

Author

Andreas Gestrich; Andreas Gestrich; Elizabeth T. Hurren

Publisher

Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282133549

Subjects

Medical, Economics, Business