Poverty in World History

by Steven M. Beaudoin and Steven Beaudoin

Book Overview

A genuinely global survey of world poverty from 1500 to the present day, Poverty in World History focuses upon the period from around 1500 onwards when poverty became a global issue, and uses the process of globalization as the chief lens through which to study and understand poverty in world history.

The result is both a tying together of significant strands of world history, and an examination of changing attitudes towards poverty and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415254582
• ISBN13: 9780415254588
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"