Concept information
Preferred term
history of poverty
Definition
- PEOPLE OFTEN AVOID their poor relations, and historians, preferring to write about monarchs, wars, high politics, and diplomacy, only began writing systematically about poverty in the last 150 years. This shift was part of a greater focus on social history that began as a focus on social conditions, often called the “social question,” in Europe in the 19th century. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; History of Poverty]
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Narrower concepts
- Abraham Lincoln administration
- almshouses
- ancient thought
- Andrew Jackson administration
- Andrew Johnson administration
- Benjamin Harrison administration
- Bill Clinton administration
- Calvin Coolidge administration
- Chester A. Arthur administration
- Cold War
- Dwight Eisenhower administration
- Fabian Society
- feudalism
- Franklin Pierce administration
- Franklin Roosevelt administration
- French Revolution
- George H. W. Bush administration
- George Washington administration
- George W. Bush administration
- Gerald Ford administration
- Great Depression
- Grover Cleveland administrations
- Harry Truman administration
- Herbert Hoover administration
- industrialization
- Irish famine
- James Buchanan administration
- James Garfield administration
- James Madison administration
- James Monroe administration
- James Polk administration
- Jimmy Carter administration
- John Adams administration
- John F. Kennedy administration
- John Tyler administration
- Les Misérables
- Lyndon Johnson administration
- Martin van Buren administration
- medieval thought
- mercantilism
- Millard Fillmore administration
- poor laws
- Richard Nixon administration
- Ronald Reagan administration
- Rutherford Hayes administration
- Theodore Roosevelt administration
- Thomas Jefferson administration
- Ulysses S. Grant administration
- utopian socialists
- war on poverty
- Warren Harding administration
- William Harrison administration
- William Howard Taft administration
- William McKinley administration
- Woodrow Wilson administration
- World War I
- World War II
- Zachary Taylor administration
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/history_of_poverty
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