Poverty, progress, and population
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Poverty, progress, and population
Cambridge University Press, 2004
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- : pbk
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注記
Includes articles previously published or soon to be published in scholarly journals
Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-454) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- Introduction: 1. In search of the industrial revolution
- Part I. The Wellsprings of Growth: 2. The divergence of England: the growth of the English economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 3. Reflections on the history of energy supply, living standards and economic growth
- 4. Two kinds of capitalism, two kinds of growth
- 5. Men on the land and men in the countryside: employment in agriculture in early nineteenth-century England
- 6. Corn and crisis: Malthus on the high price of provisions
- 7. Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies
- 8. Malthus on the prospects for the labouring poor
- 9. The occupational structure of England in the nineteenth century
- Part II. Town and Country: 10. City and country in the past: a sharp divide or a continuum?
- 11. 'The great commerce of every civilised society': urban growth in early modern Europe
- 12. Country and town: the primary, secondary and tertiary peopling of England in the early modern period
- 13. Brake or accelerator? Urban growth and population growth before the industrial revolution
- Part III. The Numbers Game: 14. 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 century
- 16. No death without birth: the implications of English mortality in the early modern period
- 17. Demographic retrospective
- Bibliography.
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