Part of the "Social and Economic History of England" series, this text examines England's social and economic history between 1714 and 1815. It considers the social order, changes in the standards of living, patterns of crime and punishment and social and industrial protest.
John Rule uses the latest scholarship for a comprehensive and magisterial review xxx; of population, output, agriculture, manufacture, labour,... Læs mere
Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses the continuity of the labour experience in the 18th Century.