Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850

by Martin Daunton

Previous textbooks on 18th and 19th century Britain have tended to be written either from a social and political standpoint, or about economics in the abstract, as if the history could be reduced to statistical analysis. The aim of this book is to incorporate the revisionist work on British
economic growth, which deals impersonally in broad national aggregates, with the work of social and political historians. It stresses the connections between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198222815
• ISBN13: 9780198222811
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 638 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.4"