Progress and Poverty An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850

Name: Progress and Poverty An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850
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ISBN: 9780198222811

ISBN-10: 0198222815

ISBN-13: 9780198222811

Edition: 1995

Authors: Martin Daunton

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This is a major college text. It will become prescribed reading for anyone studying British history in the 18th and 19th centuries. The book examines the massive structural change, the creation of national markets, and the economic growth which characterized the movement from agriculture to industry. In 1700 Britain was a rural country. By 1850, the year before the Great Exhibition, it was 'the workshop of the world'. The debate on the relationship between poverty and progress is at the core of this clear and wide-ranging analysis of the world's first industrialized nation.

Book details

List price: $73.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 638
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction: the Possibilities of Growth


Notes


Further Reading



Agriculture and Rural Society



Agricultural Production: the Limits of Growth?


Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading



The Rise of the Great Estates and the Decline of the Yeoman


Notes


Further Reading



Open Fields and Enclosure: the Demise of Commonality


Notes


Further Reading



Industry and Urban Society



Diversities of Industrialization


Notes


Further Reading



The Domestic System of Manufactures


Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading



The Coming of the Factory



Furnaces, Forges, and Mines


Conclusion


Further Reading



Capital and Credit: Financing Industrialization


Further Reading



Integrating the Economy



Integration and Specialization


Notes


Further Reading



Transport


Notes


Conclusion



Merchants and Marketing


Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading



Banks and Money


Conclusion


Notes


Further Reading


Further Reading


Further Reading


Further Reading



Poverty, Prosperity, and Population



Births, Marriages, and Deaths


Notes


Further Reading



The Standard of Living and the Social History of Wages



Poor Relief and Charity


Notes


Further Reading



Public Policy and the State



The Visible Hand: the State and the Economy


Notes


Further Reading



Taxation and Public Finance


Further Reading


Further Reading


Notes


Further Reading



Conclusion


Notes


Chronology


Statistical Appendix


Index