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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Social and Economic History of England |
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Social and economic history of England.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introductory Note; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Growth of Population and Output; Mortality; Fertility; Proletarianisation and reproduction; The great escape?; The growth of output; Agriculture; Manufacturing; 3. The Agricultural Economy; Land ownership and occupation; The improvement of agriculture; Landlords and improvement; Parliamentary enclosure; Enclosure and the labourer; 4. The Manufacturing Economy; Textiles; Coal; Metals; Hardware manufacturing |
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Glass and paper makingOther manufactures; 5. Forms of Enterprise in Manufacturing and Mining; Manufacturing; Mining; 6. Labour in Manufacturing and Mining; Working conditions and wages; Work and health; 7. Roadways and Waterways; Roads; Sea carriage; Navigable rivers; Canals; Transport and investment; Conclusion; 8. Markets; Domestic markets; Overseas markets; 9. Money Matters: Debt, Taxes and Currency; Debt; Taxation; Insurance, banking and currency; 10. The Vital Century?; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Long neglected, the Eighteenth Century is now the focus for much of the most exciting work in history today. This new research has so altered and expanded our understanding of the Georgian economy that some historians now question the very idea of an ̀€Industrial Revolution'. John Rule uses the latest scholarship for a comprehensive and magisterial review -- of population, output, agriculture, manufacture, labour, communications, towns, finance and domestic and overseas markets -- through which he reassesses the ̀€vital century' in which the contours of the modern economy first emerge to view.<B |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056673
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England -- Social conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043315
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England -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043316
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England
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317870715 |
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1317870719 |
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