Accommodating Poverty

Accommodating Poverty
Author: J. McEwan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230304702

This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century.

The Agricultural Revolution

The Agricultural Revolution
Author: Eric Kerridge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136603026

First Published in 2005. This book argues that the agricultural revolution took place in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and not in the eighteenth and nineteenth.

English Peasant Farming

English Peasant Farming
Author: Joan Thirsk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136582029

English society until the mid-eighteenth century was a predominantly rural and a peasant society. Yet we know surprisingly little about peasant life. This volume originally published in 1957, presents the agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to recent times.