Gertrude Himmelfarb's The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age is a really good book.
@CoreyRobin "was"? Isn't she still alive? I read something of hers recently in Weekly Standard.
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@HeerJeet Yeah, I just looked it up; you're right. For some reason I thought she wasn't. -
@CoreyRobin Perhaps of interest to you: there is an interesting Nietzschean sub-text to her work, especially "Marriage & Morals" book.
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