1st Edition
The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800
Introduction
David Hitchcock and Julia McClure
Part I: Structures
1. The regulation of charity and the rise of the state
Joanna Innes
2. The economic history of poverty, 1450–1800
Guido Alfani
3. Poverty and empire
Julia McClure
4. The vagrant poor
David Hitchcock
5. Poverty and environment in early modern England
John Emrys Morgan
Part II: Impacts
6. Losing wealth: debt and downward mobility in eighteenth-century England
Tawny Paul
7. Poor bodies and disease
Kevin Siena
8. Motives of control/motifs of creativity: the visual imagery of poverty in early modern Europe
Tom Nichols
9. The worthiest to be relieved: disabled veterans in England, c. 1580–1630
Abby Lagemann
10. Consumption and material culture of poverty in early-modern Europe, c1450–1800
Joseph Harley
Part III: Institutions
11. Institutional care for the sick and aged poor in later medieval England
Carole Rawcliffe
12. Poverty and the workhouse
Alannah Tomkins
13. Relief for the body, comfort for the soul: the case of Portuguese Misericórdias
Sara Pinto
14. Architecture in relief: hospitals for the poor in Venice and Lisbon
Danielle Abdon
Part IV: Connections
15. Peddling and the makeshift economy
Rosa Salzberg
16. Poverty, law and labour in the Ottoman Empire
Hayri Gökşin Özkoray
17. Spas for the sick poor in the early modern British Atlantic World
Amanda Herbert
18. Barefoot children in a ‘fine room’: Robert Owen, Adam Smith, and social regeneration in Scotland
Cornelia Lambert
Biography
David Hitchcock is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research focuses on poverty and vagrancy in Britain and the Atlantic world. He is the author of Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650–1750 (2016), and is working on a new book-length history of British welfare colonialism.
Julia McClure is a Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History at the University of Glasgow. Her research explores the global history of poverty and charity, with a particular focus on the Spanish Empire. She is the author of The Franciscan Invention of the New World (2016), and is working on a new monograph on the moral economy of poverty and the making of the Spanish Empire.
