Progress and Poverty

An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-19-822281-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 638 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 954 g

BL The only general textbook to examine the social and political implications of the economics of the period

British society and the British economy underwent major structural change over the period from 1700 to 1850, as population moved from agriculture and rural life to industry and towns. Unlike previous textbooks on this period, written either from a social and political standpoint, or about economics in the abstract, this book incorporates the work of social and political historians with revisionist work on British economic growth. It stresses the connections between the economy and debates over public policy, and examines the regional variations in agriculture and industry, with particular attention to the differences between England and Scotland. Much revisionist work concerns the operation of assumed national markets; the aim of the book is to show how these markets were formed, and how a national economy was created.

Martin Daunton gives a clear and balanced picture of the continuity and change in the early development of the world's first industrial nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daunton, M. J.

Daunton, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Progress and Poverty: The Possibilities of Growth

- 1: Agriculture and Rural Society

- Agricultural Production: The Limits of Growth

- The Rise of the Great Estates and the Decline of the Yeoman

- Open Fields and Enclosure: The Demise of Commonality

- 2: Industry and Urban Society

- Diversities of Industrialization

- The Domestic Systems of Manufacturers

- The Coming of the Factory

- Furnaces, Forges, and Mines

- Capital and Credit

- 3: Integrating the Economy

- Integration and Specialization

- Transport

- Merchants and Marketing

- Banks and Money

- Demand, Supply, and Industrialization

- 4: Poverty, Prosperity, and Population

- Births, Marriages, and Deaths

- The Standard of Living and the Social History of Wages

- Poor Relief and Charity

- 5: Public Policy and the State

- The Visible Hand: The State and the Economy

- Taxation and Public Finance

- Mercantilism and Free Trade

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Amongst Daunton's previous publications are: Housing the Workers: A Comparative Perspective 1850-1914 (editor, Leciester UP, 1989), A Property-owning Democracy? Housing in Britain (Faber, 1987), House and Home in Victorian City, 1850-1914 (Edward Arnold, 1984), and Councillors and Tenants (Leicester UP, 1983)