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959388
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b713758
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Down and out in early America /\ edited by Billy G. Smith.
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| Publication Statement
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University Park, Pa. :: Pennsylvania State University Press,, ©2004.
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xx, 327 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0271023163
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: 0271023171
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: 9780271023168
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: 9780271023175
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| Notes
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Three of the eleven papers in this volume were presented at a session held at the 1997 Organization of American Historians meeting.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: "The best poor man's country?" / Billy G. Smith -- Poverty and politics in early American history / Gary B. Nash -- 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 -- "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 -- 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.
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Charities-- United States-- History.
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Economic assistance, Domestic-- United States-- History.
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Marginality, Social-- United States-- History.
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Poor-- United States-- History.
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Poverty-- United States-- History.
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Charities.
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Economic assistance, Domestic.
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Marginality, Social.
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Poor.
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Poverty.
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Armut.
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Armut.
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United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Neuengland.
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Neuengland.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.5/0973/09033
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| LC Classification
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HC110.P6D625 2004
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| NLM classification
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NW 2708rvk
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| Added Entry
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Smith, Billy G., (Billy Gordon)
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