Poverty and Political Culture: The Rhetoric of Social Welfare in the Netherlands and France, 1815-1854

by Frances Gouda

Book Overview

Frances Gouda examines the different rhetorical approaches to poverty, charity, and social welfare embraced by intellectuals and policy-makers in the Netherlands and France in the period 1815-1854. She explores the different discourses in Holland and France about the revolutionary threat implicit in working-class poverty. By analysing the ways in which both politicians and social critics either embellished or criticized the unreliable statistics on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9053561587
• ISBN13: 9789053561584
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.5"