Poverty
Subtitle: A History
Contributors: Agnieszka Kolakowska (Translator)
Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Published: November 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780631154259
First sentence: In modern European culture the Middle Ages have become synonymous with backwardness; they seem to have existed only in order to provide us with a negative system of reference.