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Progress and poverty an economic and social history of Britain, 1700-1850 /

Main Author: Daunton, M. J.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 620 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Subjects:
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Possibilities of Growth
  • 2. Agricultural Production: The Limits of Growth?
  • 3. The Rise of the Great Estates and the Decline of the Yeoman
  • 4. Open Fields and Enclosure: The Demise of Commonality
  • 5. Diversities of Industrialization
  • 6. The Domestic System of Manufactures
  • 7. The Coming of the Factory
  • 8. Furnaces, Forges, and Mines
  • 9. Capital and Credit: Financing Industrialization
  • 10. Integration and Specialization
  • 11. Transport
  • 12. Merchants and Marketing
  • 13. Banks and Money
  • 14. Demand, Supply, and Industrialization
  • 15. Births, Marriages, and Deaths
  • 16. The Standard of Living and the Social History of Wages
  • 17. Poor Relief and Charity
  • 18. The Visible Hand: The State and the Economy
  • 19. Taxation and Public Finance
  • 20. Mercantilism and Free Trade
  • 21. Conclusion.

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