1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (lightly bumped on bottom edge of upper board, a little rubbed at spine ends, endpapers slightly marked - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. xvii + 355, illus with figures and tables (previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper and light pencil markings in margins of some pages).

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Title

FOOD ENERGY AND THE CREATION OF INDUSTRIOUSNESS Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England 1550-1780

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, 2011. 9780521881852

Publication Date

2011

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521881854

ISBN 13

9780521881852

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Economics

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Synopsis

Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living, Craig Muldrew uses new empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the early modern English economy than has previously existed. The book integrates labourers into a study of the wider economy and engages with the history of food as an energy source and its importance to working life, the social complexity of family earnings, and the concept of the ‘industrious revolution'. It argues that ‘industriousness' was as much the result of ideology and labour markets as labourers' household consumption. Linking this with ideas about the social order of early modern England, the author demonstrates that bread, beer and meat were the petrol of this world, and a springboard for economic change.

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Craig Muldrew is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

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