Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871. (Reviews).

Journal of Social History | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871. By Silvia Marina Arrom (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xii plus 398 pp. $59.95/cloth $19.95/paper).

Two landmark policy statements on poverty frame Silvia Arrom's study of the Mexico City Poor House. The first, a viceregal decree of 1774, criminalized begging in the colonial capital and mandated the arrest of beggars and their detention and rehabilitation in the Poor House, established for that purpose. Almost a century later in 1871, the government of Benito Juarez issued a new penal code that ...

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