Poverty in World History (Themes in World History) - Hardcover

Beaudoin, Steven M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415254582 ISBN 13: 9780415254588

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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 examination of changing attitudes towards poverty and poor relief throughout the world. This wide ranging study underscores a major consequence of increased cultural and economic interaction among the world's societies, highlighting the similarities and differences in impacts and responses to the resulting 'smaller' globe. Topics include:

• innovations in early modern poor relief
• the causes of trends towards a globalization of poverty after 1500
• poor relief since 1945 to the present
• poverty, morality and the state.

About this title

About the Author:

Centre College, Kentucky, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415254582
• ISBN 13: 9780415254588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136