An End to Poverty?: A Historical Debate

by Gareth Stedman Jones

Book Overview

In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all citizens could be protected against the hazards of economic insecurity. In An End to Poverty? Gareth Stedman Jones revisits this founding moment in the history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231137826
• ISBN13: 9780231137829
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher