The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial AgeDiscusses the views of great thinkers from 1750 to 1850--including Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, and Friedrich Engels--toward the condition of the poor in England. |
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Contents
PART | 21 |
Political Economy as Moral Philosophy | 42 |
Pauper versus Poor | 147 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age A Borzoi book |
| Author | Gertrude Himmelfarb |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Knopf, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 24, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0394530624, 9780394530628 |
| Length | 596 pages |
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