Poverty, Progress, and Population - Softcover

Wrigley, E. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521529743 ISBN 13: 9780521529747

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

E.A. Wrigley, the leading historian of industrial England, exposes the inadequacy of what was once accepted wisdom regarding England's industrial revolution and suggests what he believes should replace it. He examines the issues from three viewpoints: economic growth; the transformation of the urban-rural balance; and demographic change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition, he shows why England's early modern economy and society grew faster and more dynamically than its continental neighbors.

About this title

Book Description:

That the modern world is the child of the industrial revolution might be thought a commonplace. But our understanding of what constituted the industrial revolution has changed so fundamentally in recent decades that this statement can only be acceptable if both the nature and the timing of the industrial revolution are radically redefined. Sir E. A.Wrigley, the leading historian of industrial England, here sets out to expose the inadequacy of what was once the received wisdom and to suggest what he believes should stand in its place.

About the Author:

Professor Sir E. A. Wrigley is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge, former Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and former President of the British Academy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521529743
• ISBN 13: 9780521529747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478