Download or read book Accommodating Poverty written by J. McEwan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century.