The culture of giving : informal support and gift-exchange in early modern England / Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos.

An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation of varied forms of informal help, challenging long-held views and assumptions about the decline of...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Ben-Amos, Ilana Krausman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Cambridge social and cultural histories ; no. 12.
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