Poverty and Political Culture: The Rhetoric of Social Welfare in the Netherlands and France, 1815-1854The rise of industrial capitalism in nineteenth-century Europe brought with it new 'social questions': pauperism, vagabondage, unemployment, and working-class suffering in general. Poverty and Political Culture examines the unique ways in which these two profoundly different societies negotiated those issues. |
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