كتاب
Pauperland: poverty and the poor in Britain
العنوان: | Pauperland: poverty and the poor in Britain Poverty and the poor in Britain |
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المؤلفون: | Seabrook, Jeremy, 1939- author. |
بيانات النشر: | London : Hurst & Company, [2013] |
سنة النشر: | 2013 |
وصف مادي: | x, 235 pages ; 23 cm |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Poor -- Great Britain., Poverty -- Great Britain., Poor -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions., Poverty -- Great Britain -- History., Poor., Poverty., History. |
جغرافية الموضوع: | Great Britain -- Economic conditions. |
الوصف: | In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland.' More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th century, Townsend, it remains largely unknown to, or often hidden from, those who are not poor. Pauperland is Jeremy Seabrook's account of the mutations of poverty over time, historical attitudes to the poor, and the lives of the impoverished themselves, from early Poor Laws till today. He explains how in the medieval world, wealth was regarded as the greatest moral danger to society, yet by the industrial era, poverty was the most significant threat to social order. How did this change come about, and how did the poor, rather than the rich, find themselves blamed for much of what is wrong with Britain, including such familiar - and an- cient - scourges as crime, family breakdown and addictions? How did it become the fate of the poor to be condemned to perpetual punishment and public opprobrium, the useful scapegoat of politicians and the media? Pauperland charts how such attitudes were shaped by ill- conceived and ill-executed private and state intervention, and how these are likely to frame ongoing discussions of and responses to poverty in Britain. |
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | How the world remains poor -- The perils of wealth -- Where did the poor come from? -- Continuities : historical attitudes towards the poor -- Voices of the poor -- The industrial poor -- The induring image of poverty -- An impermanent settlement -- Modernized poverty -- The impoverishment of riches -- Conclusion. |
Original Identifier: | ocn860812375 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
اللغة: | English |
ردمك: | 978-1-84904-273-4 1-84904-273-X |
حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.013810054.3 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
ردمك: | 9781849042734 184904273X |
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