Dearth Public Policy And Social Disturbance In England 1550 1800
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Dearth, Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England, 1550–1800
Author: R. B. Outhwaite
language: en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date: 1991-06-18
After the mid-18th century dearth no longer produced marked rises in deaths in many English communities. What it did produce, however, was rioting. This study surveys the literature on dearth while concentrating on government policy towards grain provisioning in periods of dearth.
The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, 1550–1640
This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. It is principally concerned with the role played by the middling sort in social and political regulation, especially through the use of the law. It discusses the evolution of public policy in the context of contemporary understandings, of economic change; and analyses litigation, arbitration, social welfare, criminal justice, moral regulation and parochial analyses administration as manifestations of the increasing role of the state in early modern England.
The English Poor Law, 1531-1782
Author: Paul Slack
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1995-09-28
A concise synthesis of past work on a unique and important system of social welfare.