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Containing the poor : the Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871
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- Creator
- Silvia Marina Arrom
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822396420, 9780822325611, 0822325276, 9780822325277, 0822396424, 0822325616
- OCLC
- ocm43706977, ocn891395176, ocn972007732, on1139355929
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-383) and index.
- Introduction: The Social Control School and Its Critics -- 1. The Problem of Beggars and Vagrants, 1774-1871 -- 2. The Foundation of the Poor House -- 3. The Experiment in Practice, 1774-1805 -- 4. Reform of the Poor House, 1806-1811 -- 5. Independence and Decline, 1811-1823 -- 6. Republican Difficulties, 1824-1855 -- 7. La Reforma, Reorganization, and Crisis, 1856-1863 -- 8. Recovery during the Second Empire, 1863-1867 -- 9. The Liberals Return, 1867-1871