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
Felicia Kornbluh. The Battle for Welfare Rights Moment. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 288 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4005-4.
Reviewed by patricia hampson Published on H-Women (December, 2008) Commissioned by Holly S. Hurlburt
Gender, American Politics, and Welfare Rights
Friederike Föcking. Fürsorge im Wirtschaftsboom: Die Entstehung des Bundessozialhilfegesetzes von 1961. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007. 556 pp. EUR 74.80 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-486-58132-4.
Reviewed by Wolfgang Ayaß (University of Kassel) Published on H-German (April, 2008)
The Poor Law of the German Federal Republic
Charles H. Parker. The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv + 221 pp. $37.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-02540-9.
Reviewed by Victoria Christman (Department of History, Luther College) Published on H-German (June, 2007)
The Politics of Privation in Early Modern Holland
Steve Hindle. On the Parish? The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England, c.1550-1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xi + 521 pp. $123.94 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-927132-0.
Reviewed by Paul Griffiths (Iowa State University) Published on H-Albion (June, 2006)
Marie Muller, Bas de Gaay Fortman, eds. From Warfare to Welfare: Human Security in a Southern African Context. Assen: Royal Van Gorcum, 2004. vi + 118 pp. No price listed (paper), ISBN 978-90-232-4043-3.
Reviewed by Ian Taylor (University of St Andrews and University of Stellenbosch) Published on H-SAfrica (June, 2006)
E. S. Savas, ed. Managing Welfare Reform in New York City. Lanham: Rowan and Littlefield, 2005. xv + 375 pp. $85 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7425-4927-2.
Reviewed by Ed Berkowitz (Department of History and School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University) Published on H-Urban (February, 2006)
To Have and Have Not
Elna C. Green, ed. The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xix + 275 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-2481-4; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-2482-1.
Reviewed by Steven P. Miller (Department of History, Vanderbilt University) Published on H-South (April, 2005)
Simon P. Newman. Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. x + 211 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-3731-3; $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8122-1848-0.
Reviewed by Matthew Osborn (University of California, Davis) Published on H-SHEAR (March, 2005)
Shaping Bodies
Rosalind Mitchison. The Old Poor Law in Scotland: The experience of poverty, 1574-1845. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000. 246 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7486-1344-1.
Reviewed by Scott Moir (Department of History, University of Guelph) Published on H-Albion (May, 2001)
