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Progress and poverty : an economic and social history of Britain, 1700-1850

Author: M J Daunton
Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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British society and 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 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  Read more...
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Daunton, M. J. (Martin J.)
Progress and poverty.
Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
(OCoLC)622734775
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: M J Daunton
ISBN: 0198222823 9780198222828 0198222815 9780198222811
OCLC Number: 31707625
Description: xv, 620 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction: The Possibilities of Growth --
2. Agricultural Production: The Limits of Growth? --
3. The Rise of the Great Estates and the Decline of the Yeoman --
4. Open Fields and Enclosure: The Demise of Commonality --
5. Diversities of Industrialization --
6. The Domestic System of Manufactures --
7. The Coming of the Factory --
8. Furnaces, Forges, and Mines --
9. Capital and Credit: Financing Industrialization --
10. Integration and Specialization --
11. Transport --
12. Merchants and Marketing --
13. Banks and Money --
14. Demand, Supply, and Industrialization --
15. Births, Marriages, and Deaths --
16. The Standard of Living and the Social History of Wages --
17. Poor Relief and Charity --
18. The Visible Hand: The State and the Economy --
19. Taxation and Public Finance --
20. Mercantilism and Free Trade --
21. Conclusion.
Responsibility: M.J. Daunton.
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British society and 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 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.

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