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Poverty: A History

ISBN: 978-0-631-20529-6
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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.

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