Colin JonesCharity and Bienfaisance
The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740 1815
Produktdetails
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 336
- Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2005
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 547g
- ISBN-13: 9780521021883
- ISBN-10: 052102188X
- Artikelnr.: 21386425
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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the `70`s, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis. After university, in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup, when he was accused of being a mercenary. Later, while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar on a home-made concrete yacht during Desert Storm. En voyage, the yacht was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker, and an American aircraft carrier - The Atlantic Challenger. Since 2004, he has lived mainly in the UK, Spain and Thailand. He now leads a somewhat quieter life in his wife`s remote, northern farming village writing, editing and increasing the number of translations, and narrations of his novels. As he says: "Born in the Land of Song, living in the Land of Smiles".
List of maps, graphs, figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: charity and bienfaisance in the enlightenment
Part I. The Setting: 1. Montpellier and its region
2. The eighteenth-century problem of poverty
Part II. The Treatment of Poverty Under the Ancien Regime: 3. Poor relief in Montpellier and its region
4. The crisis of traditional charity
5. Popular attitudes towards poor relief: (i) charity
6. Popular attitudes towards poor relief: (ii) medicine
7. Government, poor relief and the repression of begging
Part III. The Treatment of Poverty Under the Revolution and the Empire: 8. Towards a 'welfare state', 1789-c.1795
9. Retreat from the 'welfare state', c.1795-c.1800
10. Poor-relief institutions from the Concordat to the Restoration
Part IV. Conclusion: 11. The government and poor relief in the early nineteenth century
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.
List of maps, graphs, figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: charity and bienfaisance in the enlightenment
Part I. The Setting: 1. Montpellier and its region
2. The eighteenth-century problem of poverty
Part II. The Treatment of Poverty Under the Ancien Regime: 3. Poor relief in Montpellier and its region
4. The crisis of traditional charity
5. Popular attitudes towards poor relief: (i) charity
6. Popular attitudes towards poor relief: (ii) medicine
7. Government, poor relief and the repression of begging
Part III. The Treatment of Poverty Under the Revolution and the Empire: 8. Towards a 'welfare state', 1789-c.1795
9. Retreat from the 'welfare state', c.1795-c.1800
10. Poor-relief institutions from the Concordat to the Restoration
Part IV. Conclusion: 11. The government and poor relief in the early nineteenth century
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.
