Poverty in world history
By: Steven M. Beaudoin.
Series: Themes in world history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780415254588; 9780415254595
Subjects: Poverty -- History; Public welfare; Economic assistance
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Poverty and charity in the pre-modern world : causes, perceptions, and strategies; title: Poverty in the emerging global economy; title: Innovations in early modern poor relief; title: Industrialization, imperialism, and world poverty, 1750-1945; title: Poverty, morality, and the state, 1750-1945; title: Poverty and poor relief after 1945.