Continuity, Chance and Change
Continuity, Chance and Change
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The Industrial Revolution brought affluence, longevity and mobility, and a great surge of economic growth was balanced against severe constraints on the opportunities for expansion, revealing an intriguing paradox. This book explores the paradox and attempts to provide a distinct 'model' of the changes that comprise the Industrial Revolution.
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Continuity, Chance and Change by E A Wrigley
The Industrial Revolution brought into being a distinct world, a world of greater affluence, longevity and mobility, an urban rather than a rural world. But the great surge of economic growth was balanced against severe constraints on the opportunities for expansion, revealing an intriguing paradox. This book, published to considerable critical acclaim, explores the paradox and attempts to provide a distinct model' of the changes that comprised the industrial revolution.
'… an intellectual breakthrough which, like it or not, will influence all our thinking in the future … Brief though it is, the book makes a profound impressionMuch research will be necessary to extend and modify it, but here undoubtedly is a major contribution of our time.' Sidney Pollard, Economic History Review
'General history is often interesting, but rarely important and searching. Continuity, Chance and Change succeeds on all three counts.' Julian Hoppit, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'General history is often interesting, but rarely important and searching. Continuity, Chance and Change succeeds on all three counts.' Julian Hoppit, The Times Higher Education Supplement
Wrigley, E. A.: - E. A. Wrigley is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge and co-founder of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including Nineteenth-Century Society (Cambridge, 1972), Continuity, Chance and Change (Cambridge, 1988), Industrial Growth and Population Change (Cambridge, 1961), Poverty, Progress, and Population (Cambridge, 2004), The Population History of England, 1541-1871 (1981), People, Cities and Wealth (1987) and The Early English Censuses (2011).
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521396578 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521396573 |
| Titre | Continuity, Chance and Change |
| Auteur | E A Wrigley |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press |
| Année de publication | 1990-11-30 |
| Nombre de pages | 156 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |