Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Name: Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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ISBN: 9780521629263

ISBN-10: 0521629268

ISBN-13: 9780521629263

Edition: 2005

Authors: Rachel G. Fuchs, William Beik, T. C. W. Blanning, Brendan Simms

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This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying particular attention to the texture of women's everyday lives. She shows their strength as they attempted to structure a life and set of relationships within a social order, culture, community, and the law. Within a climate of calamities, the poor relied on their own resourcefulness and community connections where the boundaries between the private and public were indistinguishable, and on a system of exchange and reciprocity to help them fashion…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Rachel G. Fuchs is a professor of history at Arizona State University.




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