The Metropolitan Poor Vol 4
Semifactual Accounts, 1795-1910
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 1999
Book
Hardback
374 pages
978-1-138-76165-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of primary materials on the metropolitan poor. It includes the writings of urban travellers and social reformers, and contains writings from the last five years of the 18th century, that is, from the time when the poor were first discovered as endemic to the nation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-76165-0 (9781138761650)
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Persons
John Marriott, Masaie Matsumura
Content
VOLUME 4 The soul of London, 1905-1908: Ford Madox Ford, Extracts from The soul of London (1905) C. F. G. Masterman, From the abyss (1905) B. Kennedy, Extracts from Slavery: pictures from the depths (1905) B. Kennedy, Extracts from The hunger line (1908). The million peopled city, 1815-1855: Extracts from Minutes of evidence taken before the Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the state of mendicity and vagrancy in the metropolis and its neighbourhood (1815) T. F. Buxton, Distress in Spitalfields (1816) B. Noel, Extracts from The state of the metropolis (1835) T. Beames, Extracts from Rookeries of London (1850) J. Garwood, Extracts from The million peopled city (1853) R. W. Vanderkiste, Extracts from Notes and narratives of a six years' mission, principally among the dens of London (1854)