136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
A genuinely global survey of world poverty from 1500 to the present day, Poverty in World History focuses upon the period from around 1500 onwards when poverty became a global issue, and uses the process of globalization as the chief lens through which to study and understand poverty in world history.
The result is both a tying together of significant strands of world history, and an... Read more
Introduction 1. Poverty and Charity in the Pre-Modern World: Causes, Perceptions, and Strategies 2. Poverty in the Emerging Global Economy 3. Innovations in Early Modern Poor Relief 4. Industrialization, Imperialism, and World Poverty, 1750–1945 5. Poverty, Morality, and the State, 1750–1945 6. Poverty and Poor Relief after 1945. Conclusion
Biography
Steven M. Beaudoin
