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Pages: 483
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-28 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded wo
Indentured Servitude
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-01 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed
Family Life in Britain, 1650–1910
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This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The ch
Penal Servitude
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Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe f
Fraudulent Lives
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The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy t