Poverty in World History

<p>A genuinely global survey of world poverty from 1500 to the present day <em>Poverty in World History</em> 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.</p><p>The result is both a tying together of significant strands of world history and an examination of changing attitudes towards poverty and poor relief throughout the world. This wide ranging study underscores a major consequence of increased cultural and economic interaction among the world's societies highlighting the similarities and differences in impacts and responses to the resulting 'smaller' globe. Topics include: </p><ul> <li>innovations in early modern poor relief </li> <li>the causes of trends towards a globalization of poverty after 1500 </li> <li>poor relief since 1945 to the present </li> <li>poverty morality and the state. </li> </ul>