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The Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660–1780 - Naomi Tadmor

The Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660–1780

Law, Society, and State Formation

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Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49919-4 (ISBN)
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In 1662, in the aftermath of the Restoration, parliament passed new legislation for the settlement and removal of the poor. This ground-breaking book explores the far-reaching consequences of the English settlement laws for society, culture, and the state from c.1660 to 1780.
In 1662, in the aftermath of the Restoration, parliament passed new legislation for the settlement and removal of the poor. Important provisions were finalised in no more than a few days. But once the settlement of the poor was set in law it became an agent of historical change that affected society, state formation, and the lives of millions in Britain and beyond for centuries to come. Within a few decades, practices of local government were transformed. In towns and villages hierarchies of social status and gender were affected. The rising empire employed the settlement administration to mobilise forces for large-scale international wars and to deal with soldiers' wives and children left behind. The huge number of bureaucratic forms generated following the new policies made a lasting impact on administrative culture. The Settlement of the Poor in England is about social change and about history's unintended consequences. It is also about the struggles and experiences of individuals and communities. It reminds us how the settlement legislation still resonates today. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Naomi Tadmor is Professor of History at the University of Lancaster and Chair of the Social History Society. She is co-editor of The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (1996) and author of Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (2001), and The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England (2010), all published by Cambridge.

List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Birth of Settlement; 2. The Settlement of the Poor and the Rise of the Form; 3. Kinship, Community, and Settlement; 4. Governance, Gender, Social Status, and Settlement: or, Where Was Mrs Turner?; 5. The Settlement of the Fiscal-Military State; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-108-49919-8 / 1108499198
ISBN-13 978-1-108-49919-4 / 9781108499194
Zustand Neuware
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