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This important new book, widely praised in hardcover (Yale UP) redefines the economic history of early modern Britain for a new generation of readers. Wrightson writes evocatively about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the process of change, and examining how these changes affected men, women and children at all social levels. Novel in its structure, scope, and emphasis on the lived experience of the period, the book vividly demonstrates the gains and costs of economic change.
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Keith Wrightson was Professor of Social History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. He is now Professor of History at Yale University. Among his publications is ENGLISH SOCIETY, 1580-1680.
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When sixteenth-century people used the term 'oeconomy', they employed the word in its original Greek sense to mean the management of household affairs. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
When sixteenth-century people used the term 'oeconomy', they employed the word in its original Greek sense to mean the management of household affairs. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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This little book is concerned with ordinary people, with labourers and merchants, not royalty and adventurers. It shows how people got by, and how they bettered their condition, a process to which the "famous" contributed astonishingly little. It is all the more fascinating for this.
The Industrial Revolution would not have been possible without the commmercial and legal innovations of this "Early Modern" period. In 1470, prices were determined by authority, lending for interest was a crime, and any invention was considered public property for the good of the "common weal". By 1750, the modern market, the price mechanism (supply and demand), the joint-stock company and the patent laws stood ready to exploit the technologies that would make the modern world. The time between is truly the bridge between the medieval and the modern. Steam and gunpowder? Mere trappings!
Packed, engaging, informative, and very self-contained. I highly recommend this book, a remarkable exposition of the arrival of "today".
The Industrial Revolution would not have been possible without the commmercial and legal innovations of this "Early Modern" period. In 1470, prices were determined by authority, lending for interest was a crime, and any invention was considered public property for the good of the "common weal". By 1750, the modern market, the price mechanism (supply and demand), the joint-stock company and the patent laws stood ready to exploit the technologies that would make the modern world. The time between is truly the bridge between the medieval and the modern. Steam and gunpowder? Mere trappings!
Packed, engaging, informative, and very self-contained. I highly recommend this book, a remarkable exposition of the arrival of "today".
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