Being Poor in Modern Europe

Biographical notes

Andreas Gestrich (Volume editor) Steven King (Volume editor) Lutz Raphael (Volume editor)

The Editors: Andreas Gestrich is Professor of Modern History at the University of Trier. He specialises in the social history of childhood and youth and the family, media history, social history of religion and the history of poverty and welfare in European cities. Steven King is Head of the Department of History and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Health, Medicine and Society at Oxford Brookes University, England. He publishes in the areas of rural industrialisation and historical demography, medical history and poverty and welfare. Lutz Raphael is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Trier. He specialises in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Western Europe, the history of historiography, the influence of expert knowledge on the regulation of everyday life and the history of poverty and welfare in rural societies.