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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
The history of poverty cannot be written simply by establishing a measure or threshold of deprivation and looking for all
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Valentine M. Moghadam and Rachel G. Fuchs
The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
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Clifton C. Crais, Morten Jerven, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Heather Marie Layton
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
[This entry includes three subentries, an overview and a discussion of poverty in Africa and in Latin America.]...
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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
In the nineteenth century poverty was widely regarded as the result of moral failure. Those who were poor had become
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The Oxford Companion to Australian History
has been a constant, but reluctantly acknowledged, feature of Australian society since 1788. Imperial statesmen conceived Australia as a
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Judith Fingard
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Medieval Judaism did not sanctify *poverty but sought to relieve its symptoms. The Cairo *Geniza documents present abundant information about
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Early medieval sources used pauper in a biblical sense of persons unable to fend for themselves: orphans, widows, and the
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
The problem of poverty was visible and endemic in eighteenth-century Europe. In the cities, rich and poor were not as
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Michael B. Katz
The Oxford Companion to United States History
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
The term “poverty law” refers to two distinct, but related, topics. First, poverty law is part of the welfare state
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
“Poverty” refers to a situation of scarcity or need for a family or person. Whether someone is cataloged as poor