E. A. WrigleyCambridge University PressEdition: Illustrated, 1/22/2004EAN 9780521822787, ISBN10: 0521822785Hardcover, 478 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cmLanguage: EnglishBy 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.Introduction1. In search of the industrial revolutionPart I. The Wellsprings of Growth2. The divergence of Englandthe growth of the English economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries3. Reflections on the history of energy supply, living standards and economic growth4. Two kinds of capitalism, two kinds of growth5. Men on the land and men in the countrysideemployment in agriculture in early nineteenth-century England6. Corn and crisisMalthus on the high price of provisions7. Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies8. Malthus on the prospects for the labouring poor9. The occupational structure of England in the nineteenth centuryPart II. Town and Country10. City and country in the pasta sharp divide or a continuum?11. 'The great commerce of every civilised society'urban growth in early modern Europe12. Country and townthe primary, secondary and tertiary peopling of England in the early modern period13. Brake or accelerator? Urban growth and population growth before the industrial revolutionPart III. The Numbers Game14. 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 century16. No death without birththe implications of English mortality in the early modern period17. Demographic retrospectiveBibliography.
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