A genuinely global survey of world poverty from 1500 to the present day<strong>Poverty in World History</strong> focuses upon the period from around 1500 onward... » 

A genuinely global survey of world poverty from 1500 to the present dayPoverty in World History focuses upon the period from around 1500 onwards whenpoverty became a global issue and uses the process of globalization as thechief lens through which to study and understand poverty in world history.The result is both a tying together of significant strands of world historyand an examination of changing attitudes towards poverty and poor reliefthroughout the world. This wide ranging study underscores a major consequenceof increased cultural and economic interaction among the worlds societieshighlighting the similarities and differences in impacts and responses to theresulting smaller globe. Topics includeinnovations in early modern poor relief the causes of trends towards a globalization of poverty after 1500 poor relief since 1945 to the present poverty morality and the state. «