E. A. Wrigley

The Path to Sustained Growth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Charts Britain's transformation from the European periphery to a global economic power from the reign of Elizabeth I to Victoria.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781107135710
• ISBN-10: 1107135710
• Artikelnr.: 44384852

Autorenporträt

E. A. Wrigley is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge and co-founder of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including Nineteenth-Century Society (Cambridge, 1972), Continuity, Chance and Change (Cambridge, 1988), Industrial Growth and Population Change (Cambridge, 1961), Poverty, Progress, and Population (Cambridge, 2004), The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (1981), People, Cities and Wealth (1987) and The Early English Censuses (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Organic economies
2. The classical economists
3. Energy consumption
4. Urban growth and agricultural productivity
5. Changing occupational structure and consumer demand
6. Demography and the economy
7. Transport
8. England in 1831
9. The completion of the industrial revolution
10. Review and reflection
Bibliography
Index.