Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg
Author:   Thomas Max Safley
Publisher:   Brill Academic Publishers,US
Volume:   8
ISBN:  

9780391039834


Pages:   366
Publication Date:   01 June 1997
Format:   Leather / fine binding
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Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg


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Author:   Thomas Max Safley
Publisher:   Brill Academic Publishers,US
Imprint:   Brill Academic Publishers,US
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.615kg
ISBN:  

9780391039834


ISBN 10:   0391039830
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   01 June 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Leather / fine binding
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction - the orphanages of early modern Augsburg and the limits of theory; a brief history of alms and poor relief in late medieval and early modern Augsburg; capitalistic practices and precapitalistic organizations - land, calculation and administrations in the orphanages; subventions, donations and earnings - paying for poor relief; charity and capital in the orphanages; provisioning Augsburg - buying and selling commodities in an early modern city; charity and consumption in the orphanages; labour and industry; welfare and work in the orphanages; conclusion - toward a new organizational history. Appendices: figures of receipts, expenditures and consumption; documents from the orphanages.

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Thomas Max Safley teaches Early Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Associate Professor. He has written extensively on the legal, social, and economic history of the early modern family, including Let No Man Put Asunder: The Control of Marriage in the German Southwest, 1550-1600 (1984), and he is co-editor of The Workplace Before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800 (1993).

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