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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Down and out in early America
  name:
    name part: Smith, Billy G. (Billy Gordon)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 327 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction: "The best poor man's country?" / Billy G. Smith -- Poverty and politics in early American history / Gary B. Nash -- Lives of the poor: Dead bodies: poverty and death in early national Philadelphia / Simon Newman; Malthusian miseries and the working poor in Philadelphia, 1780-1830: gender and infant mortality / Susan E. Klepp; Slaves and poverty / Philip D. Morgan -- Poor relief: "Who died an expence to this town": poor relief in eighteenth century Rhode Island / Ruth Wallis Herndon; Gender and the political economy of poor relief in colonial Philadelphia / Karin Wulf; Poor relief "without violating the rights of humanity": almshouse administration in the Philadelphia region, 1790-1860 / Monique Bourque; Bound by charity: the abandoned children of late eighteenth century Charleston / John E. Murray -- Politics, religion, and the creation of poverty: Poverty and politics in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas Humphrey; "God helps those who help themselves": religious explanations of poverty in colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1776 / J. Richard Olivas; The Delaware Indians and poverty in colonial New Jersey / Jean R. Soderlund.
  note: edited by Billy G. Smith.
  note: Three of the eleven papers in this volume were presented at a session held at the 1997 Organization of American Historians meeting.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Marginality, Social
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Charities
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Economic assistance, Domestic
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  classification: HC110.P6 D625 2004
  classification: 362.5/0973/09033
  identifier: 0271023163 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0271023171 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2003022441
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 031009
    record change date: 20151026051826.0
    record identifier: in00001813003