Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain

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This work seeks to redefine the economic history of early modern Britain. Keith Wrightson describes the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, traces the processes of change, and examines how these changes affected men, women and children at all social levels.

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About the author (2000)

Keith Wrightson has taught at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Cambridge, where he was Professor of Social History and Fellow of Jesus College. He is now Professor of History at Yale University.

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