ideas of poverty in the age of enlightenment

This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe and North America.

Niall 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 in History at the Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews