Tabla de Contenidos: “…The relative efficacy of Poor Relief provisions under the English old Poor Law / Richard Smith -- 4. Historical lessons about contemporary social welfare: Chinese puzzles and global challenges / R. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; INSANITY, INSTITUTIONS ANDSOCIETY, 1800-1914; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Accommodating madness: new research in the social history of insanity and institutions; PART I The English experience of the county lunatic asylum; 2 The county asylum in the mixed economy of care, 1808-1845; 3 The asylum and the Poor Law: the productive alliance; 4 Politics of lunacy: central state regulation and the Devon Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1845-1914…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Coping with Risk in the Seventeenth Century: The First Age of the English Old Poor Law: A Regional Study -- 7. Coping with Poverty in Rural Brandenburg: The Role of Lords and State in the Late Eighteenth Century -- 8. …”

“…There are also collections from pressure groups such as the Fabian Society, Imperial Federation Defence Committee, Poor Law Reform Association, Workhouse Visiting Society, Liberal and Property Defence League, and from cooperative movements such as the Cooperative Women's Guild…”