Jeremy Seabrook
Pauperland: Poverty and the Poor in Britain
- ISBN 13:
- 9781849045841
- author:
- Jeremy Seabrook
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- C Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 14.2 x 1.8 x 21.8 cm
- Genre:
- History, Britain & Ireland, Ireland
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Pauperland: Poverty and the Poor in Britain
Jeremy Seabrook's account explores how attitudes to poverty have evolved over time, from medieval views of wealth as a moral danger to the industrial era's focus on poverty as a threat to social order.
The book examines how such shifts in perception were shaped by ill-conceived and ill-executed private and state intervention, and how these continue to influence discussions of and responses to poverty in Britain today.
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