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The Transformation of England - Essays in the Economics and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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The Transformation of England - Essays in the Economics and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Economic History
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Peter Mathiass subject is the creation in late eighteenth-century
England of the industrial system and thereby the present world.
That unique conjuncture poses the sharpest questions about the
nature of industrialization, social change and historical
explanation, issues that are his principal scholarly concern. For
many readers these collected studies will be as indispensable as
the authors general introduction, The First Industrial Nation,
whether for the richness of their material or the freedom and
subtlety of his analysis.
These fascinating essays are divided into two groups: general
themes, the uniqueness in Europe of the industrial revolution,
capital formation, taxation, the growth of skills, science and
technical change, leisure and wages, diagnoses of poverty; and
topics, the social structure, the industrialization of brewing,
coinage, agriculture and the drink industries, advances in public
health and the armed forces, British and American public finance in
the War of Independence, Dr Johnsonand the business world.
This book was first published in 1979.
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