Progress and Poverty : An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850
British society ant the British economy underwent major structural change over the period from 1700 to 1850, as people moved from agriculture and rural life to industry and towns. Unlike previous texbooks on this period, written either from a social and political standpoint, or about economics in th...
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Oxford ; New York [etc.] :
Oxford university press
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| Edice: | Economic and social history of Britain
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- 1 - Introduction: The Possibilities of Growth.
- Part I, Agriculture and Rural Society
- P. 25
- 2 - Agricultural Production: The Limits of Growth?
- P. 61
- 3 - The Rise of the Great Estates and the Decline of the Yeoman.
- P. 92
- 4. Open Fields and Enclosure: The Demise of Commonality.
- Part II, Industry and Urban Society.
- P. 125
- 5 - Diversities of Industrialization.
- P. 148
- 6- The Domestic System of Manufactures.
- P. 173
- 7 - The Coming of the Factory.
- P. 206
- 8 - Furnaces, Forges, and Mines.
- P. 236
- Capital and Credit: Financing Industrialization.
- Part III, Integrating the Economy.
- P. 267
- 10 - Integration and Specialization.
- P. 285
- 11- Transport.
- P. 318
- 12 -Merchants and Marketing.
- P. 342
- 13- Banks and Money.
- P. 361
- 14- Demand, Supply, and Industrialization.
- Part IV, Poverty, Prosperity, and Population.
- P. 387
- 15- Births, Marriages, and Deaths.
- P. 420
- 16- The Standard of Living and the Social History of Wages.
- P. 447
- 17- Poor Relief and Charity.
- Part V, Public Policy and the State.
- P. 477
- 18-The Visible Hand: The State and the Economy.
- P. 507
- 19- Taxation and Public Finance.
- P. 533
- 20- Mercantilism and Free Trade.
- P. 560
- 21- Conclusion.