Author: Chartres, J.A.
Title: Pre-Industrial Britain [The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 1]
Description: Oxford / Cambridge, Blackwell, (1994). orig.cloth. 25x16cm, xxxvi,498 pp, Series: Economic History Society, The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 1.. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. Page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 21 papers. Includes: F.J. Fisher "The 16th & 17th Centuries: The Dark Ages in English Economic History?"; B.E. Supple " Economic History & Economic Underdevelopment"; P. O'Brien "Agriculture & the Home Market for English Industry, 1660-1820"; J. Thirsk "17th-Century Agriculture & Social Change"; J.R. Wordie "The Chronology of English Enclosure, 1500-1914"; M. Overton "The Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Early Modern England:Turnips & Clover in Norfolk & Suffolk, 1580-1740"; R. Davis "English Foreign Trade, 1660-1700"; R.B. Sheridan "The Plantation Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, 1625-1775"; E.A: Wrigley "A Simple Model of London' s Importance in Changing English Society & Economy, 1650-1750"; J.A. Chartres "Food Consumption & Internal Trade"; E.L. Jones & M.E. Falkus " Urban Improvement & the English Economy in the 17th & 18th Centuries"; R. Schofield "The Impact of Scarcity & Plenty on Population Change in England,1541-1871"; D. Levine "The Demographic Implications of Rural industrialization: A Family Reconstitution Study of Shepshed, Leicestershire, 1600-1851"; P. Clark "Migration in England During the Late 17th & Early 18th Centuries"; J. Thirsk "Industries in the Countryside"; H.Medick "The Proto-Industrial Family Economy: The Structural Function of Household & Family During the Transition from Peasant Society to Industrial Capitalism"; D.C. Coleman "Labour in the English Economy of the 17th Century"; H. Freudenberger & G,. Cummins "Heath, Work & Leisure Before the Industrial Revolution"; etc.

Keywords: British Economic History, Great Britain, Pre-Industrial, Economics Economy, England English, Trade, Agriculture, Historiography, Industry