LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alannah tomkins

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alannah tomkins

  • Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820
    Alannah Tomkins
    This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if little-recognised presence. It finds that women and men undertook caring work to the best ...
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    156,88 €

  • Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780-1890
    Alannah Tomkins
    This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the life stories of men who could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a profes...
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    157,12 €

  • The experience of urban poverty, 1723-82
    Alannah Tomkins
    This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the irregular pulse of poverty’s encounters with officialdom. It exploits an unusual methodology to secure new perspectives from familiar sources. The highly localised characteristics of the welfare economy generated a peculiarly urban environment for the poor. Separate chapters examine the parameters of workhouse...
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    157,11 €

  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 3
    Alannah Tomkins / Alysa Levene / Steven King
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain ...
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    186,20 €

  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4
    Alannah Tomkins / Alysa Levene / Steven King
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain ...
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    185,81 €

  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 1
    Alannah Tomkins / Alysa Levene / Steven King
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain ...
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    186,39 €

  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2
    Alannah Tomkins / Alysa Levene / Steven King
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain ...
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    187,03 €

  • Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5
    Alannah Tomkins / Alysa Levene / Steven King
    Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain ...
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    186,51 €