Cover of The Idea of Poverty

The Idea of Poverty

by Gertrude Himmelfarb

1984 630 pages eng

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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