Progress and Poverty
An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 June 1995
- ISBN 9780198222811
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages638 pages
- Size 234x156x34 mm
- Weight 955 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures, maps, tables 0
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Short description:
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.
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BL The only general textbook to examine the social and political implications of the economics of the period
British society and the British economy underwent major structural change over the period from 1700 to 1850, as population 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.
Martin Daunton gives a clear and balanced picture of the continuity and change in the early development of the world's first industrial nation.
Superb and wide-ranging survey of a fast changing field. Dr C. J. Schmitz, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St. Andrew's
Table of Contents:
Progress and Poverty: The Possibilities of Growth
1: Agriculture and Rural Society
Agricultural Production: The Limits of Growth
The Rise of the Great Estates and the Decline of the Yeoman
Open Fields and Enclosure: The Demise of Commonality
2: Industry and Urban Society
Diversities of Industrialization
The Domestic Systems of Manufacturers
The Coming of the Factory
Furnaces, Forges, and Mines
Capital and Credit
3: Integrating the Economy
Integration and Specialization
Transport
Merchants and Marketing
Banks and Money
Demand, Supply, and Industrialization
4: Poverty, Prosperity, and Population
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
The Standard of Living and the Social History of Wages
Poor Relief and Charity
5: Public Policy and the State
The Visible Hand: The State and the Economy
Taxation and Public Finance
Mercantilism and Free Trade
Conclusion
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