An End to Poverty?
A Historical Debate
The debate on world poverty and globalisation is one which began two centuries ago in the wake of the French Revolution. A major historian traces the history of those arguments and relates them to current discussions and policies. In the 1790s there was a fundamental shift in attitudes to poverty (led by Condorcet and Tom Paine), one which believed that poverty could be alleviated or even eliminated, by moving towards a society in which, in Paine's words, we would no 'longer see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows'; one in which many disadvantages would be relieved by right. Such thinking was robustly countered by Christian ev…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-86197-729-8
- EAN: 9781861977298
- Produktnummer: 21910145
- Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.9 cm 324 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 324
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Gareth Stedman-Jones is Professor of Political Science at Cambridge, a Fellow of King´s and Director of the Centre for History and Economics. His works include Outcast London and Language of Class.
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