Poverty: A HistoryISBN: 978-0-631-20529-6
Paperback
288 pages
January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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Foreword.
Introduction: What is Poverty?.
1. The Middle Ages: Charity and Salvation.
2. The Disintegration of Medieval Society.
3. Reformation and Repression: the 1520s.
4. The Reform of Charity.
5. Charitable Polemics: Local Politics and Reasons of State.
6. Prisons of Enlightenment.
7. Poverty and the Contemporary World.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.