A War On Poverty : The One War That Can End War

Partridge, Edward Alexander

Winnipeg, 1925 ?

By The Wallingford Press Limited
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Hardcover, [6], iv, [2], xii, [2], [1 port], [6], 225, [14] pages (last fourteen pages blank - with the heading "Readers Notes"), 6x9 in, [16x23 cm]. A single 11.5x8.5 in. folded promotional leaflet - laid-in.
Condition

Front hinge scared, with damage to the backstrip in similar location; modest dust-staining to the top edge; cover boards worn at the extremities. Laid-in content creased, marked with ink, moisture and dust stained.
Notes

Edward Alexander Partridge (1861–1931) was a Saskatchewan farmer, agrarian reformer, and co-founder of the Grain Growers' Grain Company. A tireless critic of capitalism and industrial exploitation, he played a central role in Canada's early cooperative movement and agrarian activism. After decades of organizing and writing, Partridge distilled his social, political, and spiritual views into his 1925 self-published work A War on Poverty, written in the twilight of his life following personal and political disillusionment.

A War on Poverty: The One War That Can End War (1925) is a utopian-socialist tract combining Partridge’s critiques of capitalism with elements of Christian idealism and cooperative economics. Presented as a medley of vison and social theory, the book calls for the establishment of a “Co-operative Commonwealth” to replace exploitative systems with economic justice and social harmony. Peel(3) 5018
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