Marco H.D. van Leeuwen is a professor of social science history at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He specializes in the study of global social inequality from 1500 to the present. Professor van Leeuwen is an honorary research fellow at the International Institute of Social History. He has written widely on social inequality and mobility as well as on philanthropy, charity, mutual aid, private and social insurance, and the history of risks. His work has been published in such journals as the
American Journal of Sociology, the
American Sociological Review,
the
Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
The Economic History Review, the
Journal of Social History,
Continuity and Change, and the
European
Sociological Review.
2 Электронные книги Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen
Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen: Mutual Insurance 1550-2015
In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Y …
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английский
€106.99
Logic of Charity
This study analyses poor relief in preindustrial Europe from 1800 to 1850, as a survival strategy of the poor and as a control strategy of the elites. It deals with poverty and the problems of the po …
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английский
DRM
€113.77
