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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Daunton, M. J. (Martin J.) Progress and poverty. Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 (OCoLC)622734775 |
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| 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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Abstract:
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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