Children of the laboring poor expectation and experience among the orphans of early modern Augsburg
This volume provides fascinating new insights into the agency of the laboring poor in early modern Europe. Based on more than 5,000 biographical accounts of orphans in the city of Augsburg, it explores their responses to changing social and economic circumstances and their utilization of social inst...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in Central European histories ; v. 38. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31791578*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Note on Money; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Death and Adaptation; Chapter Two. Debt, "Presentism," and Traditionalism; Chapter Three. Resourcefulness, Calculation, and Rationalism; Chapter Four. Negotiation and Admission; Chapter Five. The Disciplining of Appetites; Chapter Six. The Disciplining of Spirits; Chapter Seven. Disciplining the Laborer; Chapter Eight. Death and the Servant: Leaving the Orphanages; Chapter Nine. A Return to the Margin?; Chapter Ten. A Place in the Mainstream?; Conclusion: The Worm in the Apple; Bibliography; Index;
