Peter Mathias

The Transformation of England (eBook, PDF)

Essays in the Economics and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Peter Mathias's 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 author's 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 Johnson and the business world.

This book was first published in 1979.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136600159
• Artikelnr.: 40000362

Autorenporträt

Peter Mathias was Chichele Professor of Economic History in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Themes 1. British industrialization:
unique or not? 2. Skills and the diffusion of innovations from Britain in
the eighteenth century 3. Who unbound Prometheus? Science and technical
change, 1600-1800 4. Science and technology during the Industrial
Revolution: some general problems 5. Capital, credit and enterprise in the
Industrial Revolution 6. Taxation and industrialization in Britain,
1700-1870 7. Adam's burden: historical diagnoses of poverty 8. Leisure and
wages in theory and practice Part II: Topics 9. The social structure in the
eighteenth century: a calculation by Joseph Massie 10. The people's money
in the eighteenth century: the Royal Mint, trade tokens and the economy