The Routledge History of Poverty, c. 1450-1800

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Introduction: poverty in early modern history
PART I: Structures
	1. The regulation of charity and the rise of the state
	2. The economic history of poverty, 1450–1800
	3. Poverty and empire
	4. The vagrant poor
	5. Poverty and environment in early modern England
PART II: Impacts
	6. Losing wealth: debt and downward mobility in eighteenth-century England
	7. Poor bodies and disease
	8. Motives of control/motifs of creativity: the visual imagery of poverty in early modern Europe
	9. The worthiest to be relieved: disabled veterans in England, c. 1580–1630
	10. Consumption and material culture of poverty in early-modern Europe, c1450–1800
PART III: Institutions
	11. Institutional care for the sick and aged poor in later medieval England
	12. Poverty and the workhouse
	13. Relief for the body, comfort for the soul: the case of Portuguese Misericórdias
	14. Architecture in relief: hospitals for the poor in Venice and Lisbon
PART IV: Connections
	15. Peddling and the makeshift economy
	16. Poverty, law and labour in the Ottoman Empire
	17. Spas for the sick poor in the early modern British Atlantic world
	18. Barefoot children in a ‘fine room’: Robert Owen, Adam Smith, and social regeneration in Scotland
Further reading
Index