Описание: This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450.
Автор: Peters Laura Название: Orphan Texts: Victorians, Orphans, Culture and Empire ISBN: 0719090164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719090165 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 2955.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In one of the first studies of its kind, Orphan texts seeks to insert the orphan into the larger critical areas of the family and childhood in Victorian culture. Laura Peters considers canonical texts alongside lesser known works from popular culture in order to establish the context in which discourses of orphanhood operated. -- .
Описание: The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem. This title recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned children in this period in vivid detail.
Описание: The memoirs of the expelled Girondin deputies--Buzot, Petion, Barbaroux, and Louvet--provide the basis for this book, which documents their lives as fugitives from June 1793 to June 1794, by which time only Louvet remained alive. Earlier treatments have focused on the Jacobin/Girondin quarrels in the National Assembly from 1791-1793, but this is the first book to examine the fate of the Girondin fugitives during the Terror.
Автор: Berry Janis Название: Orphans of Empire ISBN: 0198758480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198758488 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4196.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The fascinating story of what happened to the orphaned and abandoned children of the London Foundling Hospital, and the consequences of Georgian philanthropy. From serving Britain`s growing global empire in the Royal Navy, to the suffering of child workers in the Industrial Revolution, the Foundling Hospital was no simple act of charity.
Автор: Crabbe Название: Pension and Widows` and Orphans` Funds ISBN: 1107621747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107621749 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4277.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1953 as a textbook for actuaries-in-training, this book gives an overview of the actuarial and legal background to pensions and funds for orphans and widows. It will be of value to anyone interested in the development of pension provision.
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