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OverviewThis collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe. It brings together experts with a wide range of expertise to offer pathbreaking discussions of how eighteenth-century thinkers thought about the poor. Because the theme of poverty played important roles in many critical issues in European history, it was central to some of the key debates in Enlightenment political thought throughout the period, including the controversies about sovereignty and representation, public and private charity, as well as questions relating to crime and punishment. The book examines some of the most important contributions to these debates, while also ranging beyond the canonical Enlightenment thinkers, to investigate how poverty was conceptualised in the wider intellectual culture, as politicians, administrators and pamphlet writers grappled with the issue. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Niall O’Flaherty , Robin MillsPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9781526166777ISBN 10: 1526166771 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 16 April 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsIdeas of poverty in an age of Enlightenment: an introduction – R. J. W. Mills 1 ‘Welfare for whom?’ The place of poor relief in the theory and practice of the enlightened absolutist state – T. J. Hochstrasser 2 Economic Bienfaisance and the Physiocratic rhetoric of charity – Arnault Skornicki 3 Poverty, rights and the social contract in Enlightenment Austrian-Habsburg Lombardy – Alexandra Ortolja-Baird 4 An economic regalism: poverty and charity in eighteenth-century Spain – Jesús Astigarraga and Javier Usoz 5 The embarrassment of poverty: Dutch decline, liberalism, patriotism and the duties of the state around 1800 – Koen Stapelbroek 6 Edmund Burke and Adam Smith on the ‘labouring poor’: an eighteenth-century debate – Anna Plassart 7 Beyond a charitable design? Robert Wallace as a theorist of poverty and population growth – Conor Bollins 8 Conceptions of Polish and Russian poverty in the British Enlightenment – Ben Dew 9 Desolation and abundance: poverty and the Irish landscape, c.1720-1820 – James Stafford 10 A new moral economy: the early reception of Malthus – Niall O’Flaherty 11 Poverty, autonomy and control: Patrick Colquhoun’s Treatise on Indigence (1806) - Joanna Innes -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationNiall O’Flaherty is Senior Lecturer in the History of European Political Thought at King’s College London R. J. W. Mills is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews -- . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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