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Bread and the British Economy, 1770-1870 (Paperback)
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Bread and the British Economy, 1770-1870 (Paperback)
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In this ambitious book Christian Petersen has taken a central topic
in economic and social history and given it a new sweep and
coherence. As the Lord's Prayer suggests, securing an adequate
supply of bread was a matter of over-riding concern to everyone
until very recently. Bread was always by far the largest single
item in the budgets of the poor, but bread could be made from many
grains - wheat, rye, barley etc. Christian Petersen describes how
in the later eighteenth century the process of replacing other
cereals by wheat in bread making was completed throughout Britain.
He provides a continuous series of estimates of bread consumption
per caput, of bread prices (and, consequently, used in conjunction
with population data, of total national expenditure on bread), and
of wheat output and net imports. The implications of the changes in
techniques of milling and baking that occurred are analysed, and
the organisation of the baking and retailing of bread is described.
Bread was so central to the economy of individual households and to
the national economy as a whole that this book represents a major
contribution to the history of the British economy and of British
society in the period 1770-1870.
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