Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth Century Europe or The Political Economy of Merchant Empires

Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Author: Rachel Ginnis Fuchs

In a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily family lives of poor European women in the nineteenth century, Rachel Fuchs powerfully conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing women in this period. She offers a fascinating study of their experience of birth, sex and death, as well as the changing responsibilities of individual family members and the transformations in society's responses to the problems of poverty. This accessible synthesis will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban history and social and family history.

Table of Contents:

1	The revolutionary era, 1770-1815	20
2	Population and poverty	43
3	Rural society and the problems of poverty	69
4	Working in the cities	109
5	Life in the cities	152
6	Charity and welfare	196

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The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750

Author: James D Tracy

The Political Economy of Merchant Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1450 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organized and well-financed rivals. The volume is a companion to The Rise of Merchant Empires (1990), which dealt with changes in the growth and composition of long-distance trade during the same period.