LEADER 02807nam 2200661 450 001 9910823666103321 005 20230803031916.0 010 $a1-84904-442-2 010 $a1-84904-443-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000492907 035 $a(EBL)1538405 035 $a(OCoLC)863822896 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001262294 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12434415 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001262294 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11211900 035 $a(PQKB)10883897 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704110 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1538405 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704110 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11273929 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000492907 100 $a20161012h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPauperland $epoverty and the poor in Britain /$fJeremy Seabrook 210 1$aLondon [England] :$cHurst & Company,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-84904-273-X 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 How The World Remains Poor; 2 The Perils of Wealth; 3 Where Did the Poor Come From?; 4 Continuities: Historical Attitudes towards the Poor; 5 Voices of the Poor; 6. The Industrial Poor; 7. The Enduring Image of Poverty; 8. An Impermanent Settlement; 9 Modernised Poverty; 10 The Impoverishment of Riches; Conclusion; Index; Footnotes 330 $aIn 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 606 $aPoor$zGreat Britain 606 $aPoverty$zGreat Britain 606 $aPoor$zGreat Britain$xEconomic conditions 606 $aPoverty$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPoor 606 $aPoverty 607 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aPoor 615 0$aPoverty 615 0$aPoor$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aPoverty$xHistory. 615 0$aPoor. 615 0$aPoverty. 676 $a362.50941 700 $aSeabrook$b Jeremy$f1939-$0147794 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823666103321 996 $aPauperland$94121969 997 $aUNINA