TY - BOOK ID - 77866370 TI - Bureaucrats and beggars PY - 1990 SN - 1280440155 1429401516 0195364015 1601296762 9781429401517 9781601296764 9780195051681 0195051688 9786610440153 6610440158 0195051688 0197711944 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Beggars KW - Almshouses KW - Benevolent institutions KW - Charitable institutions KW - Homes (Institutions) KW - Poor farms KW - Poorhouses KW - Workhouses (Poorhouses) KW - Asylums KW - Charities KW - Hospitals KW - Institutional care KW - Public institutions KW - Public welfare KW - Old age homes KW - Mendicants KW - Panhandlers KW - Street people (Beggars) KW - Poor KW - Government policy KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77866370 AB - Thomas Adams explores the social context in which the French Enlightenment arose by focusing on the response of 18th-century French society to the problem of poverty, and examining the institutions which were established in this period to rehabilitate the poor. ER -