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Poverty and Political Culture: Rhetoric of Social Welfare in the Netherlands and France, 1815-54 - Softcover

Gouda, Frances

 
9780847679348: Poverty and Political Culture: Rhetoric of Social Welfare in the Netherlands and France, 1815-54

Synopsis

The rise of industrial capitalism in nineteenth-century Europe brought with it new "social questions": pauperism, vagabondage, unemployment, and working-class suffering in general. Poverty and Political Culture examines the unique ways in which these two profoundly different societies negotiated those issues.

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About the Author

Frances Gouda has taught at Wellesley College and The American University. She is the recipient of several fellowships, including, most recently, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

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