Poverty
Subtitle: A History
Contributors: Agnreszka Kolakowska (Translator)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
Published: February 1, 1997
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780631205296
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.