Children of the laboring poor: expectation and experience among the orphans of early modern Augsburg
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Main Author: Safley, Thomas Max (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2005
Series:Studies in Central European histories v. 38
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-477) and index
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
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 institutions and mores
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 493 pages)
ISBN:0391042246
1429426284
9780391042247
9781429426282

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