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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

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Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
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6,179 words
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Oxford University Press

The history of poverty cannot be written simply by establishing a measure or threshold of deprivation and looking for all

Poverty

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Encyclopedia of Social Work (20 ed.)

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Current Version:
2008

Poverty has been a subject of concern since the beginnings of social work. This entry reviews three key research areas.

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Clifton C. Crais, Morten Jerven, Harry Anthony Patrinos, and Heather Marie Layton

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
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7,013 words

[This entry includes three subentries, an overview and a discussion of poverty in Africa and in Latin America.]...

Poverty

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
3,562 words

“Poverty” refers to a situation of scarcity or need for a family or person. Whether someone is cataloged as poor

Poverty and Conflict

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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Social sciences
Length:
2,255 words

There are two distinct ways of, or frameworks for, thinking about the relationship between poverty and conflict. One is whether

Poverty

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Oxford Companion to Australian Politics

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
Length:
1,966 words

The abolition of poverty has been a major goal of social policy. It underlies development of the welfare state

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Judith Fingard

The Oxford Companion to Canadian History

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
979 words
The experience of poverty in Canada is defined by three historical periods: the years before the welfare state (until the 1940s), the years marked by the flowering of the welfare state ... More
Poverty

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The Oxford Companion to Australian History

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Current Version:
2003
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
1,183 words

has been a constant, but reluctantly acknowledged, feature of Australian society since 1788. Imperial statesmen conceived Australia as a

POVERTY

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Religion
Length:
261 words
Biblical and rabbinic writers generally regarded poverty as a misfortune. God’s blessing upon his people is meant to include material prosperity along with the other felicities of life, ... More
Poverty, the Poor

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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

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2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
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1,045 words

The West Byzantium

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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion

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Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Religion
Length:
218 words

Jewish attitudes to poverty vary. Throughout Jewish history the poor are treated with respect, and alleviation of their sufferings is

poverty and health

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Andrew P. Haines

The Oxford Companion to Medicine (3 ed.)

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Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Medicine and health
Length:
2,514 words
Absolute poverty refers to a standard of minimum requirement, and relative poverty refers to falling behind most others in a given community. Poverty is usually held to include social ... More
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
Length:
4,171 words

The problem of poverty was visible and endemic in eighteenth-century Europe. In the cities, rich and poor were not as

Poverty.

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Michael B. Katz

The Oxford Companion to United States History

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
1,965 words
Poverty has always been a serious problem in America. Throughout its history, large numbers of Americans have been unable to purchase food, shelter, and clothing, or to achieve a ... More
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Valentine M. Moghadam and Rachel G. Fuchs

The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
History
Length:
6,388 words
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2
This entry consists of two subentries:Overview Comparative History Overview Since the 1980s studies on the proliferation of female‐headed households and research into ... More
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
Law, History
Length:
6,303 words
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1

The term “poverty law” refers to two distinct, but related, topics. First, poverty law is part of the welfare state

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Dictionary of the Social Sciences

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
Social sciences
Length:
849 words

A condition of absolute or relative deprivation of material and cultural resources. The term absolute poverty refers to the condition

Poverty

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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
825 words

In the nineteenth century poverty was widely regarded as the result of moral failure. Those who were poor had become

poverty

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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer

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2005

and its effects are not a central theme in Chaucer, but are the subject of some powerful passages concerned

poverty, Jewish care for

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
252 words

Medieval Judaism did not sanctify *poverty but sought to relieve its symptoms. The Cairo *Geniza documents present abundant information about

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