Production and Consumption in English Households 1600-1750This economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption activities in households in Kent and Cornwall yields important new insights on the transition to capitalism in England. |
Contents
Household production | |
Byemployment womens work and unproductive households | |
The material culture of consumption | |
Rooms and room | |
Wealth occupation status and location | |
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Production and Consumption in English Households 1600-1750 Darron Dean,Mark Overton,Andrew Hann,Jane Whittle No preview available - 2012 |
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appraisers arable baking Biddenden brewing By-employed by-employment Cambridge Canterbury cent of households cent of inventories chamber clocks commercial farming Commercial food consumer cooking Cornish households Cornish inventories Cornwall and Kent Cornwall Kent Cornwall counties court cupboards craft dairying decline domestic early eighteenth century early modern England early seventeenth century England equipment evidence example farmers food preservation gentry Goudhurst groups Gwennap Hearth Tax Hot drinks houses Husbandman identified included increased indicating industry involved Kent and Cornwall Kent Cornwall Kent Kent inventories Kentish households kitchen labour linen logistic regression London Luxulyan Madron malting material culture mean median number mining mirrors ownership parishes parlour percentages period pewter plates Poughill probate inventories Prod production activities proportion of households proportion of inventories recorded rural sample seventeenth century Smarden social specialised spinning St Columb Major St Gennys suggesting Table textile Tregony types University of Exeter University Press urban WEALTH50 Yeoman