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The Idea of Poverty

by Gertrude Himmelfarb · 1984

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Discusses 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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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
povertypovertyMore like thisLess of this
Setting
18th century18th centuryMore like thisLess of this19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 596 pages

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