Concept information
Preferred term
history of poverty
Definition(s)
- 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]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- Abraham Lincoln administration
- almshouses
- ancient thought
- Date: 1829-1837 Andrew Jackson administration
- Date: 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson administration
- Date: 1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison administration
- Bill Clinton administration
- Date: 1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge administration
- Date: 1881-1885 Chester A. Arthur administration
- Cold War
- Date: 1953-1961 Dwight Eisenhower administration
- Fabian Society
- feudalism
- Franklin Pierce administration
- Franklin Roosevelt administration
- French Revolution
- Date: 1989-1993 George H. W. Bush administration
- George Washington administration
- Date: 2001-2009 George W. Bush administration
- Date: 1974-1977 Gerald Ford administration
- Date: 1929-1939 Great Depression
- Date: 1885-1889, 1893-1897 Grover Cleveland administrations
- Harry Truman administration
- Date: 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover administration
- industrialization
- Irish famine
- Date: 1857-1861 James Buchanan administration
- Date: 1881 James Garfield administration
- James Madison administration
- James Monroe administration
- James Polk administration
- Date: 1977-1981 Jimmy Carter administration
- Date: 1797-1801 John Adams administration
- John F. Kennedy administration
- John Tyler administration
- Les Misérables
- Date: 1963-1969 Lyndon Johnson administration
- Martin van Buren administration
- medieval thought
- mercantilism
- Date: 1850-1853 Millard Fillmore administration
- poor laws
- Richard Nixon administration
- Ronald Reagan administration
- Date: 1877-1881 Rutherford Hayes administration
- Theodore Roosevelt administration
- Date: 1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson administration
- Date: 1869-1877 Ulysses S. Grant administration
- utopian socialists
- war on poverty
- Date: 1921-1923 Warren Harding administration
- Date: 1841 William Harrison administration
- William Howard Taft administration
- William McKinley administration
- Woodrow Wilson administration
- Date: 1914-1918 World War I
- Date: 1939-1945 World War II
- Zachary Taylor administration
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VPVV5DKZ-8
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