 | Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia Subjects: Poor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century; Poor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century; Public welfare -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century; Public welfare -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia --; "A useful and readable account of the ways in which the poor were regulated by the emergent disciplinary power of the modern state."-- William and Mary Quarterly Simon P. Newman is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies, University of Glasgow, and author of Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
