The Transformation of England: Essays in the Economics and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century (Economic History) - Softcover

Mathias, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138865079 ISBN 13: 9781138865075

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138865079
• ISBN 13: 9781138865075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344