Industry in the Countryside: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century

by Michael Zell

Book Overview

Industry in the Countryside is a wide-ranging and readable study of the nature of manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution. It examines the widely-debated theory of 'proto-industrialisation', drawing on data from the Kentish Weald - an area which was already a centre of cottage industry in the Tudor era and was also the earliest rural manufacturing region to 'de-industrialise'. The book analyses the Wealden textile industry from its workforce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521893062
• ISBN13: 9780521893060
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"