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Book Synopsis
This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of figures
1. Introduction: acts of imagination
2. Usefulness and beyond
3. Wild & visionary schemes
4. English oaks: William Hanbury & Jonas Hanway
5. Charitable things I: memory and spectacle
6. Charitable things II: food and fashion
7. Cottage conversations: poverty and manly independence in late eighteenth-century England
8. Conclusions
Index

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    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 12/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719078835, 978-0719078835
    ISBN10: 0719078830

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief.

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements
    List of figures
    1. Introduction: acts of imagination
    2. Usefulness and beyond
    3. Wild & visionary schemes
    4. English oaks: William Hanbury & Jonas Hanway
    5. Charitable things I: memory and spectacle
    6. Charitable things II: food and fashion
    7. Cottage conversations: poverty and manly independence in late eighteenth-century England
    8. Conclusions
    Index

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