LEADER 04428nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910826237603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-14598-8 010 $a1-280-43765-0 010 $a0-511-16537-4 010 $a0-511-16596-X 010 $a0-511-16401-7 010 $a0-511-31285-7 010 $a0-511-61636-8 010 $a0-511-16481-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000353552 035 $a(EBL)255180 035 $a(OCoLC)560115596 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000225174 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202327 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225174 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10229913 035 $a(PQKB)10150349 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511616365 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC255180 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL255180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10120478 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL43765 035 $a(OCoLC)69405036 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000353552 100 $a20030325d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoverty, progress, and population /$fE.A. Wrigley 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aCambridge $cCambridge University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 463 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aIncludes articles previously published or soon to be published in scholarly journals. 311 $a0-521-52974-3 311 $a0-521-82278-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- -- Part I. The wellsprings of growth : -- 1. The quest for the industrial revolution -- 2. The divergence of England : the growth of the English economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 3. Two kinds of capitalism, two kinds of growth -- 4. Men on the land and men in the countryside : employment in agriculture in early nineteenth-century England -- 5. The occupational structure of England in early mid-nineteenth century England -- 6. Corn and crisis : Malthus on the high price of provisions -- 7. Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies -- 8. Malthus on the prospects for the labouring poor -- -- Part II. Town and country : -- 9. City and country in the past : a sharp divide or a continuum? -- 10. 'The great commerce of every civilised society' : urban growth in early modern Europe -- 11. Country and town : the primary, secondary and tertiary peopling of England in the early modern period -- -- Part III. The numbers game : -- 12. Explaining the rise in marital fertility in England in the 'long' eighteenth century -- 13. No death without birth : the implications of English mortality in the early modern period -- 14. The effect of migration on the estimation of marriage age in family reconstitution studies -- 15. Demographic retrospective -- -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aBy the early nineteenth century England was very different economically from its continental neighbours. It was wealthier, growing more rapidly, more heavily urbanised, and far less dependent upon agriculture. A generation ago it was normal to attribute these differences to the 'industrial revolution' and to suppose that this was mainly the product of recent change, but no longer. Current estimates suggest only slow growth during the period from 1760-1840. This implies that the economy was much larger and more advanced by 1760 than had previously been supposed and suggests that growth in the preceding century or two must have been decisive in bringing about the 'divergence' of England. Sir E. A. Wrigley, the leading historian of industrial Britain, here examines the issues which arise in this connection from three viewpoints: economic growth; the transformation of the urban-rural balance; and demographic change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 606 $aIndustrial revolution$zEngland 606 $aCities and towns$zEngland$xGrowth$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xEconomic conditions 607 $aEngland$xPopulation$xHistory 615 0$aIndustrial revolution 615 0$aCities and towns$xGrowth$xHistory. 676 $a330.942/07 700 $aWrigley$b E. A$g(Edward Anthony),$f1931-$01749136 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826237603321 996 $aPoverty, progress, and population$94183007 997 $aUNINA