POVERTY, PROGRESS, AND POPULATION by E. A. Wrigley ( 9780511616365 )

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POVERTY, PROGRESS, AND POPULATION

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0511616368

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9780511616365

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 December, 2009

Description:

Definitive account of England's transformation through industrial revolution, from one of the nation's leading historians.

Synopsis:

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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49 tables

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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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