Please join British, Irish and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin on Tuesday, December 6, at noon CST, 6 p.m. GMT, for the final session of our virtual series, “Eat, Drink and Be Merry?
Please join British, Irish and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin on Tuesday, December 6, at noon CST, 6 p.m. GMT, for the final session of our virtual series, “Eat, Drink and Be Merry?
Steven King.
Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. 488 pp.
$120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5648-5; $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5649-2. 
Lawrence Goldman, ed. Welfare and Social Policy in Britain since 1870: Essays in Honour of Jose Harris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 256 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-883304-8.
Reviewed by Anne Rodrick (Wofford College) Published on H-Albion (June, 2020) Commissioned by Douglas Kanter (Florida Atlantic University)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55060
Catherine E. Rymph. Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xiv + 252 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3564-4; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3563-7.
Susan D. Greenbaum. Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 190 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-7413-4.Karen M. Tani. States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 427 pp.
Aradhana Sharma. Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxxvii + 260 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-5452-9; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-5453-6.
Reviewed by Manu Bhagavan (Hunter College) Published on H-Asia (February, 2010) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Margarita Estévez-Abe. Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv + 340 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-85693-5; $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-72221-6.
Reviewed by Brian J. McVeigh (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona ) Published on H-US-Japan (July, 2010) Commissioned by Yone Sugita
Alannah Tomkins. The Experience of Urban Poverty, 1723-82: Parish, Charity and Credit. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. 288 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-7504-9.
Reviewed by Padhraig Higgins Published on H-Albion (November, 2008) Commissioned by David S. Karr
Agency, Survival and the Old Poor Law
