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Poverty in Modern Europe : Spaces, Localities, Institutions, Hardback Book

Poverty in Modern Europe : Spaces, Localities, Institutions Hardback

Edited by Andreas (Trier University) Gestrich, Elisabeth (Trier University) Gruner, Susanne (Trier University) Hahn

Part of the Studies of the German Historical Institute, London series

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Poverty in Modern Europe explores the spatial dimensions of poverty in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.

Its essays focus on a variety of regional, local, and institutional settings and apply different approaches and methods, such as micro history, historical geography, network analysis, and the study of political and academic expert discourses.

They are grouped into four sections. The first concentrates on the question of how it was that within the same national legal framework, poverty could be administered and experienced so differently at regional and local levels.

Although the discussion of 'welfare regionalism' has been accepted as an important perspective in both the social sciences and social history, it has not resulted in many comparative studies or produced a valid framework for comparisons.

The following three sections ask how urban and rural spaces of poverty were constructed by political, academic, and administrative discourses and how 'localities' of poor relief were experienced by the poor.

Many essays look into the spatial dimensions of processes of inclusion and exclusion.

They examine the role played by institutions (such as workhouses) and by social networks (such as families and neighbourhoods), and are particularly interested in what has frequently, albeit not uncontroversially, been termed the 'agency' of the poor and its spatial dimensions.

The volume tests different approaches in different countries and suggests a number of aspects and yardsticks to consider when comparing regional or local differences.

While the main geographical focus is on English-speaking and German-speaking Europe, the volume also contains comparative perspectives on France and Russia.

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