E. A. Wrigley

Poverty, Progress, and Population (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

By the early nineteenth century England was very different economically from its continental neighbours. It was wealthier, growing more rapidly, more heavily urbanised, and far less dependent upon agriculture. A generation ago it was normal to attribute these differences to the 'industrial revolution' and to suppose that this was mainly the product of recent change, but no longer. Current estimates suggest only slow growth during the period from 1760-1840. This implies that the economy was much larger and more advanced by 1760 than had previously been supposed and suggests that growth in the preceding century or two must have been decisive in bringing about the 'divergence' of England. Sir E. A. Wrigley, the leading historian of industrial Britain, here examines the issues which arise in this connection from three viewpoints: economic growth; the transformation of the urban-rural balance; and demographic change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511162411
• Artikelnr.: 38205915

Autorenporträt

Professor Sir E. A. Wrigley is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge, former Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and former President of the British Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. In search of the industrial revolution; Part I. The
Wellsprings of Growth: 2. The divergence of England: the growth of the
English economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 3. Reflections
on the history of energy supply, living standards and economic growth; 4.
Two kinds of capitalism, two kinds of growth; 5. Men on the land and men in
the countryside: employment in agriculture in early nineteenth-century
England; 6. Corn and crisis: Malthus on the high price of provisions; 7.
Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies; 8. Malthus on the
prospects for the labouring poor; 9. The occupational structure of England
in the nineteenth century; Part II. Town and Country: 10. City and country
in the past: a sharp divide or a continuum?; 11. 'The great commerce of
every civilised society': urban growth in early modern Europe; 12. Country
and town: the primary, secondary and tertiary peopling of England in the
early modern period; 13. Brake or accelerator? Urban growth and population
growth before the industrial revolution; Part III. The Numbers Game: 14.
How reliable is our knowledge of the demographic characteristics of the
English population in the early modern period?; 15. Explaining the rise in
marital fertility in the 'long' eighteenth century; 16. No death without
birth: the implications of English mortality in the early modern period;
17. Demographic retrospective; Bibliography.