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Supply Chain Analytics Using Data to Optimise Supply Chain Processes

Supply Chain Analytics Using Data to Optimise Supply Chain Processes

Supply Chain Analytics introduces the reader to data analytics and demonstrates the value of their effective use in supply chain management. By describing the key supply chain processes through worked examples and the descriptive predictive and prescriptive analytic methods that can be applied to bring about improvements to those processes the book presents a more comprehensive learning experience for the reader than has been offered previously. Key topics are addressed including optimisation big data data mining and cloud computing. The author identifies four core supply chain processes – strategy design execution and people – to which the analytic techniques explained can be applied to ensure continuous improvement. Pedagogy to aid learning is incorporated throughout including an opening section for each chapter explaining the learnings designed for the chapter; worked examples illustrating how each analytic technique works how it is applied and what to be careful of; tables diagrams and equations to help ‘visualise’ the concepts and methods covered; chapter case studies; and end-of-chapter review questions and assignment tasks. Providing both management expertise and technical skills which are essential to decision-makers in the supply chain this textbook should be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of supply chain analytics supply chain leadership and supply chain and operations management. Its practice-based and applied approach also makes it valuable for operating supply chain practitioners and those studying for professional qualifications. Online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides tutorial exercises written assignments and a test bank of exam questions. | Supply Chain Analytics Using Data to Optimise Supply Chain Processes

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Green Supply Chain Management

Green Supply Chain Management

Today one of the top priorities of an organization’s modern corporate strategy is to portray itself as socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. As a focal point of sustainability initiatives green supply chain management has emerged as a key strategy that can provide competitive advantages with significant parallel gains for company profitability. In designing a green supply chain the intent is the adoption of comprehensive and cross-business sustainability principles from the product conception stage to the end-of-life stage. In this context green initiatives relate to tangible and intangible corporate benefits. Sustainability reports from numerous companies reveal that greening their supply chains has helped reduce operating cost thus boosting effectiveness and efficiency while increasing sustainability of the business. Green Supply Chain Management provides a strategic overview of sustainable supply chain management shedding light on the theoretical background and key principles of the topic. Specifically this book covers various thematic areas including benefits and impact of green supply chain management; enablers and barriers on supply chain operations; inbound and outbound logistics considerations; and production packaging and reverse logistics under the notion of greening. The ultimate aim of this textbook is to highlight the challenges in the implementation of green supply chain management in modern companies and to provide a roadmap for decision-making in real-life cases. Combining chapter summaries and discussion questions this book provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to green supply change management and will be of great interest to students scholars and practitioners in the fields of sustainable business and supply chain management.

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Purchasing and Supply Chain Management A Sustainability Perspective

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management A Sustainability Perspective

For too long business has focused on short-term cost advantages through low-cost country sourcing with little regard for the longer-term implications of global sustainability. Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Second Edition not only fully addresses the environmental social and economic challenges of how companies manage purchasing and supply chains but also delves deeper into emerging areas such as modern slavery digital technologies and circular supply chains. In addition to explaining the basic principles and processes of both purchasing and supply chain management the book evaluates how to develop strategic and sustainable purchasing and supply chain management. Our key message is that purchasing and supply chain management needs to focus on value creation rather than cost cutting. This requires the development of new purchasing and supply chain models that involve circular supply structures supply chain transparency and collaboration with new stakeholders in traditional sourcing and supply chain settings. Aimed at students educators and practitioners the book integrates sustainability into each chapter as a core element of purchasing and supply chain management. This second edition incorporates new examples and case studies from industry throughout striking a balance between theoretical frameworks and guidelines for implementation in practice. | Purchasing and Supply Chain Management A Sustainability Perspective

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Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management

Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management

This book takes as its starting point the need to improve sustainability performance across the triple bottom line and reach global sustainable development goals. As such it places sustainability at the heart of developing and explaining relevant theory concepts and models in operations and supply chain management. Whereas previous textbooks on operations and supply chain management have focused on augmenting existing models of operations and supply chain management by simply adding on selected sustainability issues this textbook places sustainability at the heart of operations and supply chain management. Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management consolidates the tools concepts and methods of operations and supply chain management relevant for reaching sustainable development goals. This book includes not only descriptions of the theories and models but also practical cases based on the most recent developments in different industry sectors including user electronics healthcare fashion and energy. Relevant student exercises are also included for use in the classroom or in personal study. This book provides an ideal introduction for Bachelor or Masters-level students whether they are on general management and business degrees or are focused on areas such as engineering management technology management or sustainability management. Furthermore university-level teachers and lecturers will find the material presented in this book a valuable basis for structuring their courses on operations and supply chain management in the context of sustainability.

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Chain Analysis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Chain Analysis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Filled with detailed clinical examples this book expertly breaks down the process of behavioral chain analysis/m-/the critical foundation for assessment and problem solving in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Experienced DBT clinician and trainer Shireen L. Rizvi provides knowledge and skills for conducting chains effectively and overcoming obstacles. She presents guiding principles questions to ask strategies for engaging clients and addressing difficult-to-assess problems and ways to avoid common mistakes. The book describes how to incorporate other essential DBT strategies (such as validation) into chain analysis as well as how to conduct chains in the context of individual therapy group skills training phone coaching and the consultation team. | Chain Analysis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

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Marketing and Supply Chain Management A Systemic Approach

Marketing and Supply Chain Management A Systemic Approach

Organizations are now recognizing the importance of demand-supply integration to their growth and success. While marketing and supply chain management are an essential part of any business qualification it is becoming increasingly essential to understand the need for integration between synergize marketing and SCM. Marketing and Supply Chain Management is among the first to synergize these two disciplines. Its holistic approach provides students with a macro-level understanding of these functions and their symbiotic relationship to one another and demonstrates how both can be managed synergistically to the benefit of the organization. This bridge-building textbook is ideal for students of marketing logistics supply chain management or procurement who want to understand the machinations of business at a macro level. | Marketing and Supply Chain Management A Systemic Approach

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Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Drug Quality and Security Act

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Drug Quality and Security Act

Error-proofing in the production process of pharmaceuticals isn’t just a matter of good business it has life-and-death implications for consumers. To that end the 2013 Drug Quality and Security Act in large part requires new mandates on tracking and tracing chain of custody in the supply chain. Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: Drug Quality and Security Act overviews the new mandate and its implications including implementation strategies for track-and-trace programs along with presenting a fuller understanding of the mechanics of intergovernmental policies and oversights. The book focuses on the delicate balance between protecting the public through legislation against negligent compounding pharmacies and protecting patients by assuring a supply of needed compounded drugs by not over-regulating the industry. The author discusses lessons learned from the earlier e-pedigree initiatives the technology advances that enable supply chain security and how the industry will need to respond to the myriad of threats facing the pharmaceutical drug supply chain and comply with this act. He goes in depth into each segment of the pharmaceutical drug supply chain describing the industry segment and how it will need to adapt to the new act. By incorporating real-world examples of industry leaders the book underlines the contributions of individuals who have made a difference through innovations and execution. It also addresses how laws are made and specifically how the Drug Quality and Security Act was passed by Congress and signed into law. In an industry that is so big you may feel that you cannot make a difference. This book provides you with key insights on how the forward supply chain process should work and how anyone can make a difference at all levels. | Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Drug Quality and Security Act

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The Art and Science of Demand and Supply Chain Planning in Today's Complex Global Economy

The Art and Science of Demand and Supply Chain Planning in Today's Complex Global Economy

The demand and supply chain planning process for manufacturers distributors and retailers has evolved over the years. It has gone from a disjointed unconnected slow inaccurate fairly manual set of processes to an integrated timely process enabled by the use and coordination of highly trained people lean agile processes and cutting-edge technology. To make this set of processes work effectively one has to fully understand and appreciate that there is an art and science aspect to the process which can take years of education and experience to fully understand. Essentially this book will offer the reader a chance to fully understand the interconnected set of processes in a best-practice application. Furthermore examples and cases will be used to illustrate its practical application in today’s complex global supply chain. In addition readers will understand and be able to apply and articulate the concepts tools and techniques used in the efficient supply of goods and services in today’s changing global economy. It will help them to learn how businesses through their supply chain work both internally and with their trading partners – both upstream and downstream – to build strong relationships and integrate demand and supply planning activities across the supply chain to deliver customer value efficiently and effectively. They will learn about the tools and technologies enabling integration and the critical drivers and key metrics of supply chain performance. | The Art and Science of Demand and Supply Chain Planning in Today's Complex Global Economy

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Food Provisions for Ancient Rome A Supply Chain Approach

Food Provisions for Ancient Rome A Supply Chain Approach

This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using modern supply chain modelling techniques. The subject matter delves into the wider supply of goods such as wood and building products to add further perspective to the breadth of the system managed by the Roman administration to ensure supply and political stability. It assesses the impact of strategic changes such as the introduction of water-powered milling technology and restructuring of the annona in this period as well as administrative reforms. Evidence from ancient sources both literary and epigraphic along with relevant archaeological comparative evidence is used to develop a detailed supply model including the mapping of warehouse management systems; port and river traffic co-ordination; quality control mechanisms and administrative structures. Unlike other contemporary studies this model takes into consideration supply chain losses to correct the erroneous assumption that supply is equal to consumption. A product flow map from the source of supply to the consumer details the labour equipment and infrastructure required at each stage painting a graphic picture of just what an achievement it was for the administration to have maintained such a complex system over this long time period. Food Provisions for Ancient Rome provides an in depth exploration of this topic that will be of interest to anyone working on the city of Rome under the empire as well as those interested in imperial administration and logistics. | Food Provisions for Ancient Rome A Supply Chain Approach

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Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

Mastering Objective-C is a detailed guide for beginners that gives a modern programmer’s viewpoint on Objective-C. It introduces the principles of Objective-C and current Apple programming skills and libraries allowing the reader to make the best use of the tools available. Concise and easy to understand this book covers many topics including an introduction to key concepts of language and primary toolkits as well as the Foundation and AppKit frameworks to help quickly advance with the necessary information. This book explains how to structure applications properly and organize code for optimum performance. The fundamental principles explained here are helpful to beginner and intermediate users interested in learning this highly technological and diverse language. | Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

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Institutional Innovation and Change in Value Chain Development Negotiating tradition power and fragility in Afghanistan

Institutional Innovation and Change in Value Chain Development Negotiating tradition power and fragility in Afghanistan

George Bernard Shaw once said that reasonable people adapt themselves to the world but unreasonable people adapt the world to themselves. In a sense this book explores how these so-called ‘unreasonable people’ may interact to re-fashion the world around them in fragile economic development. Drawing on empirical research in the volatile and traditional context of Afghanistan the study investigates the challenge of poor women’s participation in business and diverse outcomes for local development. Institutional Innovation and Change in Value Chain Development takes a unique look at nuanced institutional phenomena through the lens of social institutions with a subtle appreciation of the interaction of structure and agency. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research in Afghanistan the case studies specifically investigate the transformation of the women’s norm of purdah and the subsequent development of new market institutions in three women’s enterprises. Shedding new light on the opaque process of institutional change the research shows that external actors (such as NGOs) can both initiate and guide institutional development in fragile environments. Yet there may be limitations to their endeavours with strong resistance from local power holders. Meanwhile dominant entrepreneurs are shown to play a major role in fostering institutional development pathways. This influences the scope of inclusion and exclusion in enterprise and value chains and broader streams of socio-economic development. | Institutional Innovation and Change in Value Chain Development Negotiating tradition power and fragility in Afghanistan

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C. G. Jung The Basics

C. G. Jung The Basics

C. G. Jung: The Basics is an accessible concise introduction to the life and ideas of C. G. Jung for readers of all backgrounds from those new to Jung’s work to those looking for a convenient reference. Ruth Williams eloquently and succinctly introduces the key concepts of Jungian theory and paints his biographical picture with clarity. The book begins with an overview of Jung’s family life childhood and relationship with (and subsequent split from) Sigmund Freud. Williams then progresses thematically through the key concepts in his work clearly explaining ideas including the unconscious the structure of the psyche archetypes individuation psychological types and alchemy. C. G. Jung: The Basics also presents Jung’s theories on dreams and the self and explains how his ideas developed and how they can be applied to everyday life. The book also discusses some of the negative claims made about Jung especially his ideas on politics race and gender and includes detailed explanations and examples throughout including a chronology of Jung’s life and suggested further reading. C. G. Jung: The Basics will be key reading for students at all levels coming to Jung’s ideas for the first time and general readers with an interest in his work. For those already familiar with Jungian concepts it will provide a helpful guide to applying these ideas to the real world. | C. G. Jung The Basics

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Crusading at the Edges of Europe Denmark and Portugal c.1000 c.1250

Crusading at the Edges of Europe Denmark and Portugal c.1000 c.1250

This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two countries became strong kingdoms and important powers internationally by their participation in the crusading movement. Communication in the Middle Ages was better developed than often assumed and institutions ideas and military technology was exchanged rapidly meaning it was possible to coordinate great military expeditions across the geographical periphery of Western Europe. Both Denmark and Portugal were closely connected to the sea and developed strong fleets at the entrance to the Baltic and in the Mediterranean Seas respectively. They also both had religious borders to the pagan Wends and to the Muslims that were pushed forward in almost continuous crusades throughout the centuries. Crusading at the Edges of Europe follows the major campaigns of the kings and crusaders in Denmark and Portugal and compares war-technology and crusading ideology highlighting how the countries learned from each other and became organised for war. | Crusading at the Edges of Europe Denmark and Portugal c. 1000 � c. 1250

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C. G. Jung’s Archetype Concept Theory Research and Applications

C. G. Jung’s Archetype Concept Theory Research and Applications

The concept of archetypes is at the core of C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology. In this interesting and accessible volume Roesler summarises the classical theory of archetypes and the archetypal stages of the individuation process as it was developed by Jung and his students. Various applications of archetypes in cultural studies as well as in clinical practice are demonstrated with detailed case studies dream series myths fairy tales and so on. The book also explores how the concept has further developed as a result of research and for the first time integrates findings from anthropology human genetics and the neurosciences. Based on these contemporary insights Roesler also makes a compelling argument for why some of Jung’s views on the concept should be comprehensively revised. Offering new insights on foundational Jungian topics like the collective unconscious persona and shadow C. G. Jung’s Archetype Concept is of great interest to Jungian students analysts psychotherapists and scholars. | C. G. Jung’s Archetype Concept Theory Research and Applications

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Perspectives On A Changing China Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

Perspectives On A Changing China Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

This collection of essays represents current research in modern (post-1800) Chinese history. All contributors are former students of Professor C. Martin Wilbur one of the great names in the China field over the past forty years who recently retired from a long tenure as modern Chinese historian at Columbia University. While diverse in their subje | Perspectives On A Changing China Essays In Honor Of Professor C. Martin Wilbur

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Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

In 1944 C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as the most tremendous things I have ever experienced. Central to these visions was the mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition and Jung’s experience of himself as Rabbi Simon ben Jochai the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic text the Zohar. Kabbalistic Visions explores Jung’s 1944 Kabbalistic visions the impact of Jewish mysticism on Jungian psychology Jung’s archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism and his claim late in life that a Hasidic rabbi the Maggid of Mezhirech anticipated his entire psychology. This book places Jung’s encounter with the Kabbalah in the context of the earlier visions and meditations of his Red Book his abiding interests in Gnosticism and alchemy and what many regard to be his Anti-Semitism and flirtation with National Socialism. Kabbalistic Visions is the first full-length study of Jung and Jewish mysticism in any language and the first book to present a comprehensive Jungian/archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism. | Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

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Reading the Red Book An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus

Reading the Red Book An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus

The long-awaited publication of C. G. Jung's Red Book in October 2009 was a signal event in the history of analytical psychology. Hailed as the most important work in Jung's entire corpus it is as enigmatic as it is profound. Reading The Red Book by Sanford L. Drob provides a clear and comprehensive guide to The Red Book's narrative and thematic content and details The Red Book's significance not only for psychology but for the history of ideas. | Reading the Red Book An Interpretive Guide to C. G. Jung’s Liber Novus

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Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination prurient or otherwise for Westerners who being either Catholic or Protestant were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions and pious denunciations of sodomy bestiality transvestitism and incest abound in Western travel narratives missionary accounts and ethnographies. But what constituted indigenous sexual morality and how was this influenced by Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Islam and Christianity over time and place? What sex practices were tolerated or even encouraged by society community and religious ritual and what acts were considered undesirable transgressive and worthy of punishment? Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600-1950 is the first book to foreground same- sex acts and pleasure seeking in the histories of India China Japan the Philippines Thailand and Indonesia. Drawing on a range of indigenous and foreign sources the contributors all renowned experts in their fields shed light on indigenous notions of gender and the body social hierarchies fundamental ideas concerning morality and immorality and episodes of seduction. The book illuminates - in striking case studies – attitudes toward non-procreative sex acts and representations and experiences of same-sex pleasure seeking in the histories of Asia. This path-breaking book is an important contribution to the study of gender and sexuality in Asian cultures and will also interest students and scholars of world history. | Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

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Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court c.1500–1630

Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court c.1500–1630

In the sixteenth century the Ottoman court in Constantinople emerged as the axial centre of early modern diplomacy in Eurasia. Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court c. 1500-1630 takes a unique approach to diplomatic relations by focusing on how diplomacy was conducted and diplomatic cultures forged at a single court: the Sublime Porte. It unites studies from the perspectives of European and non-European diplomats with analyses from the perspective of Ottoman officials involved in diplomatic practices. It focuses on a formative period for diplomatic procedure and Ottoman imperial culture by examining the introduction of resident embassies on the one hand and on the other changes in Ottoman policy and protocol that resulted from the territorial expansion and cultural transformations of the empire in the sixteenth century. The chapters in this volume approach the practices and processes of diplomacy at the Ottoman court with special attention to ceremonial protocol diplomatic sociability gift-giving cultural exchange information gathering and the role of para-diplomatic actors. | Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court c. 1500–1630

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The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)

The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)

The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633/1235 when Tūsī was already a celebrated scholar scientist politico-religious propagandist. The work has a special significance as being composed by an outstanding figure at a crucial time in the history he was himself helping to shape: some twenty years later Tūsī was to cross the greatest psychological watershed in Islamic civilization playing a leading part in the capture of Baghdad and the extinction of the generally acknowledged Caliphate there. In this work the author is primarily concerned with the criteria of human behaviour: first in terms of space and priority allotted at the individual level secondly at the economic level and thirdly at the political level. | The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)

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Germs in the English Workplace c.1880–1945

Germs in the English Workplace c.1880–1945

This book looks at how the workplace was transformed through a greater awareness of the roles that germs played in English working lives from c. 1880 to 1945. Cutting across a diverse array of occupational settings – such as the domestic kitchen the milking shed the factory and the Post Office – it offers new perspectives on the history of the germ sciences. It brings to light the ways in which germ scientists sought to transform English working lives through new types of technical and educational interventions that sought to both eradicate and instrumentalise germs. It then asks how we can measure and judge the success of such interventions by tracing how workers responded to the potential applications of the germ sciences through their participation in friendly societies trade unions colleges and volunteer organisations. Throughout the book close attention is paid to reconstructing vernacular traditions of working with invisible life in order to better understand both the successes and failures of the germ sciences to transform the working practices and material conditions of different workplaces. The result is a more diverse history of the peoples politics and practices that went into shaping the germ sciences in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. | Germs in the English Workplace c. 1880–1945

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Digital Image Processing with C++ Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library

Digital Image Processing with C++ Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library

Digital Image Processing with C++: Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library presents the theory of digital image processing and implementations of algorithms using a dedicated library. Processing a digital image means transforming its content (denoising stylizing etc. ) or extracting information to solve a given problem (object recognition measurement motion estimation etc. ). This book presents the mathematical theories underlying digital image processing as well as their practical implementation through examples of algorithms implemented in the C++ language using the free and easy-to-use CImg library. Chapters cover the field of digital image processing in a broad way and propose practical and functional implementations of each method theoretically described. The main topics covered include filtering in spatial and frequency domains mathematical morphology feature extraction and applications to segmentation motion estimation multispectral image processing and 3D visualization. Students or developers wishing to discover or specialize in this discipline and teachers and researchers hoping to quickly prototype new algorithms or develop courses will all find in this book material to discover image processing or deepen their knowledge in this field. | Digital Image Processing with C++ Implementing Reference Algorithms with the CImg Library

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Deviant Maternity Illegitimacy in Wales c. 1680–1800

Deviant Maternity Illegitimacy in Wales c. 1680–1800

This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy and the link between illegitimacy courtship and economic precarity. It also goes beyond courtship to consider the different identities and relationships of the mothers and fathers of illegitimate children in Wales and the lived experience of conception pregnancy and childbirth for unmarried mothers. This book reframes the study of illegitimacy by combining demographic social and cultural history approaches to emphasise the diversity of experiences contexts and consequences. | Deviant Maternity Illegitimacy in Wales c. 1680–1800

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