Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700-1850BL The only general textbook to examine the social and political implications of the economics of the period British society and the British economy underwent major structural change over the period from 1700 to 1850, as population moved from agriculture and rural life to industry and towns. Unlike previous textbooks on this period, written either from a social and political standpoint, or about economics in the abstract, this book incorporates the work of social and political historians with revisionist work on British economic growth. It stresses the connections between the economy and debates over public policy, and examines the regional variations in agriculture and industry, with particular attention to the differences between England and Scotland. Much revisionist work concerns the operation of assumed national markets; the aim of the book is to show how these markets were formed, and how a national economy was created. Martin Daunton gives a clear and balanced picture of the continuity and change in the early development of the world's first industrial nation. |
Contents
The Limits of Growth? | 25 |
The Rise of the Great Estates and the Decline of | 61 |
The Demise | 92 |
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Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700-1850 Martin J. Daunton No preview available - 1995 |
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