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The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering
exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early
modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion
erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The
essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and
connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social
mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies,
disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the
understanding of societal transformations across the early modern
period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these
transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty
in history which accounts for much more than economic and social
circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and
detailed case studies. By exploring poverty and the poor across
early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students
and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state
formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.
The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering
exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early
modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion
erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The
essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and
connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social
mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies,
disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the
understanding of societal transformations across the early modern
period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these
transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty
in history which accounts for much more than economic and social
circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and
detailed case studies. By exploring poverty and the poor across
early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students
and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state
formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.
This book examines the story of the 'discovery of America' through
the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious
movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The
Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often
paradoxical relationships with poverty and power offer an alternate
account of global history. Through this lens, Julia McClure offers
a deeper history of colonialism, not only by extending its
chronology, but also by exploring the powerful role of ambivalence
in the emergence of colonial regimes. Other topics discussed
include the legal history of property, the complexity and politics
of global knowledge networks, the early (and neglected) history of
the Near Atlantic, and the transatlantic inquisition, mysticism,
apocalypticism, and religious imaginations of place.
Imperial Inequalities takes Western European empires and their
legacies as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of
taxation and welfare. In doing so, it addresses the institutional
and fiscal processes involved in modes of extraction, taxation, and
the hierarchies of welfare distribution across Europe's global
empires. The idea of 'imperial inequalities' provides a conceptual
frame for thinking about the long-standing colonial histories that
are responsible, at least in part, for the shape of present
inequalities. This wide-ranging volume challenges existing
historiographical accounts that present states and empires as
separate categories. Instead, it views them as co-constitutive
units by focusing upon the politics of economic governance across
imperial spaces. Authors examine the fiscal innovations that
enabled European empires to finance their expansion, the politics
of redistribution that were important to constructing the veneer of
legitimacy of taxation, and the fiscal mechanisms that were
established to ensure that the imperial contours of inequality
continued to define the postcolonial world. These diverse
contributions provide new resources for how we think about issues
of taxation and welfare across the longue duree. This book is
relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced
inequalities -- .
This book examines the story of the 'discovery of America' through
the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious
movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The
Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often
paradoxical relationships with poverty and power offer an alternate
account of global history. Through this lens, Julia McClure offers
a deeper history of colonialism, not only by extending its
chronology, but also by exploring the powerful role of ambivalence
in the emergence of colonial regimes. Other topics discussed
include the legal history of property, the complexity and politics
of global knowledge networks, the early (and neglected) history of
the Near Atlantic, and the transatlantic inquisition, mysticism,
apocalypticism, and religious imaginations of place.
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