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Name: The Idea of Poverty
Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb

📘 The Idea of Poverty by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Discusses the views of great thinkers from 1750 to 1850--including Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, and Friedrich Engels--toward the condition of the poor in England

First publish date: 1984

Authors: Gertrude Himmelfarb

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