| Ordinary People: In and Out of Poverty in the Gilded Age Contributor(s): Wagner, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594514607 ISBN-13: 9781594514609 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $247.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 362.585 |
| LCCN: 2007043348 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.49" W x 9.22" (1.07 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |