Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London

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Beschreibung

London in the eighteenth century was the greatest city in the world, and a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of England in huge numbers. If for a few the streets were paved with gold, for the majority it was a harsh world with little guarantee of money or food. For the poor and destitute, London's streets offered little more than the barest living. Yet men, women and children found a great variety of ways to eke out their existence, sweeping roads, selling matches, singing ballads and performing all sorts of menial labour. Many of these activities, apart from the direct begging of the disabled, depended on an appeal to charity, but one often mixed with threats and promises. Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London provides a remarkable insight into the lives of Londoners, for all of whom the demands of charity and begging were part of their everyday world.

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Tim Hitchcock

Zusammenfassung

*Familiar to many from Hogarth prints, the squalor of life in eighteenth-century London had never before been properly documented. *The book draws on a vast range of original sources, from documentary evidence to poetry and popular prints. *It is sure to be of interest to everyone facsinated by this colourful period. Hitchcock does for eighteenth-century London what Henry Mayhew and Gustave DorÃ© did for the nineteenth.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Streets of London
2 Sleeping Rough
3 Pauper Professions
4 Menaces and Promises
5 The Rhetoric of Rags
6 Begging from the Parish
7 Charity in Stone
8 The Begging Year
9 A Beggar's Mask
10 The History of the Poor
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781852855529
ISBN-10:	1852855525
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hitchcock, Tim
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Tim Hitchcock
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.2007
Gewicht:	0,547 kg