ENGLISH

Poverty, Progress, and Population

By E. A. Wrigley

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521822785, 9780521822787, 9780511165962
Open Library ID
OL7765089M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2530799 bytes)
Pages
479\479
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

E.A. Wrigley, the leading historian of industrial England, exposes the inadequacy of what was once accepted wisdom regarding England's industrial revolution and suggests what he believes should replace it. He examines the issues from three viewpoints: economic growth; the transformation of the urban-rural balance; and demographic change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition, he shows why England's early modern economy and society grew faster and more dynamically than its continental neighbors.

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