by Cynthia E. Milton (Author)

The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context-it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.

Author Biography

Cynthia E. Milton is Canada Research Chair in Latin American History at the Université de Montréal. She is coeditor of The Art of Truthtelling about Authoritarian Rule (2005)