Long neglected, the Eighteenth Century is now the focus for much of the most exciting work in history today. This new research has so altered and expanded our understanding of the Georgian economy that some historians now question the very idea of an Industrial Revolution'. John Rule uses the latest scholarship for a comprehensive and magisterial review -- of population, output, agriculture, manufacture, labour, communications, towns, finance and domestic and overseas markets -- through which he reassesses the vital century' in which the contours of the modern economy first emerge to view. An analytical survey which offers the first comprehensive economic history of the C.18th.
The Vital Century is not a book for the faint-hearted historian. It is packed with facts, graphs, tables and not a single picture graces its more than 300 pages. It is however an invaluable reference book for those of you, like me, who are interested in British History, and most especially in the Georgian age which started in 1714. This was a period of immense change in the social, political and economic structure of the country - the rapid decline in fatal epidemics and the rise of industrial revolution. Rule is methodical in his research and in demonstrating just what happened, why this was so and why, even into the middle of the nineteenth century, Britain stayed ahead of all other European countries. A fascinating and worthwhile book for your reference library.
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