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How welfare worked in the early United States : five microhistories /

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"The year George Washington was finishing his first term as president, 1792, William Larned was beginning his first term as overseer of the poor for Providence, Rhode Island. Larned would be re-elected for another thirty-five one-year terms and arguably exercised more authority over locals than...

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Main Author: Loiacono, Gabriel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Public welfare > United States > History.
Poor > United States > History.
Poor laws > United States > History.
Lois sur les pauvres > États-Unis > Histoire.
Poor
Poor laws
Public welfare
United States
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History
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