A new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy.

Hannah demonstrates that the modernization of late nineteenth-century America was a spatial and geographical project.

Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. A hundred years ago, most working-class households avoided or cop

This book seeks to enrich our understanding of middle-class life in England during the Industrial Revolution. For many years, questions about how the middle cla

Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing