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Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740-1815

By Colin Jones

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
9780521021883, 0521245931, 9780511562655, 052102188X, 0511562659, 9780521245937
LCC
HV270.M66 J66 1982
Open Library ID
OL3484894M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7746841 bytes)
Pages
336\333
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book is a case study, based on the Montpellier region in southern France, which analyses charity and poor relief from 1750 to the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and the effect of the French Revolution on the treatment of the poor. The breadth of the book's timescale is one of its most notable features; so too is the way in which the changing treatment of the problem of poverty is seen not only in its political and administrative context, but also in terms of police forces, charitable benefactors, the administrators of charitable institutions, and the poor themselves.

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