Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age

Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age
ISBN-10
1317254945
ISBN-13
9781317254942
Series
Ordinary People
Category
Social Science
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2015-12-03
Publisher
Routledge
Author
David Wagner

Description

David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time.

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