Poverty, progress, and population / / E.A. Wrigley [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Wrigley E. A (Edward Anthony), <1931-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 463 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 330.94207 |
Soggetto topico |
Industrial revolution - England
Cities and towns - England - Growth - History |
ISBN |
1-107-14598-8
1-280-43765-0 0-511-16537-4 0-511-16596-X 0-511-16401-7 0-511-31285-7 0-511-61636-8 0-511-16481-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- -- 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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Poverty, Progress, & Population |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457196303321 |
Wrigley E. A (Edward Anthony), <1931-> | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Poverty, progress, and population / / E.A. Wrigley |
Autore | Wrigley E. A (Edward Anthony), <1931-> |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 463 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 330.942/07 |
Soggetto topico |
Industrial revolution - England
Cities and towns - England - Growth - History |
ISBN |
1-107-14598-8
1-280-43765-0 0-511-16537-4 0-511-16596-X 0-511-16401-7 0-511-31285-7 0-511-61636-8 0-511-16481-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- -- 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826237603321 |
Wrigley E. A (Edward Anthony), <1931-> | ||
Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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