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  • Britain and America, 1850–1939

    A Study of Economic Change

    by Philip S. Bagwell, G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1970, Britain and America 1850–1939 is a key text for anyone seeking to trace and interpret the development of the two great trans-Atlantic economies.The authors present a comparative survey of the economic development of Britain and America. The book compares and contrasts the economic and social progress of the two countries in the period of rapid industrialization and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Unquiet Countryside

    Edited by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989 The Unquiet Countryside chronicles rural crime and unrest in the English countryside from seventeenth century down to the end of the Victorian era. The authors highlight some of the most striking aspects of the countryside of the past: the extent and nature of rural crime and protest; riots over food; the Swing riots of 1830; poaching, arson, and animal maiming; the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Vanishing Countryman

    Edited by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, The Vanishing Countryman investigates how farmers, farm workers, and other country crafts- and tradespeople have fared in response to significant changes across the British countryside in the past one hundred years.The book explores the move towards large-scale and capital-intensive farming, and the conflict between increased production and damage to the environment. It ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Britain

    1830–1939

    by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, The Transformation of Britain, 1830–1939 delves into the significant changes that occurred across the landscape and society of Britain during this prominent age of reform and innovation.The book traces the rapid increase in the pace and scale of change across Britain, and explores the key developments that occurred. It examines the changes in population as more people ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century

    by G.E Mingay ...
    First published in 2006. This book is based on research into estate records and studies around the three broad categories of landowners: peers, gentry, and freeholders. Landed property was the foundation of eighteenth-century society. The soil itself yielded the nation its sustenance and most of its raw materials, and provided the population with its most extensive means of employment; and the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A Social History of the English Countryside

    by G. E. Mingay ...
    Traces the rise and fall of rural England from the Middle Ages to the Second World War and the nature of the changes which have occurred. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Rural Idyll

    Edited by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
    This book, first published in 1989, recounts the changing perceptions of the countryside throughout the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, helping us to understand more fully the issues that have influenced our view of the ideal countryside, past and present. Some of the chapters are concerned with ways in which Victorian artists, poets, and prose writers portrayed the countryside of their day; ... Read more

    $145.99 USD

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  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly Jr ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • The Famine Plot

    England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    English Society in the Eighteenth Century

    by Roy Porter ...
    A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Great Stink of London

    Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

    by Stephen Halliday ...
    'An extraordinary history' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' - Hermione Hobhouse'Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . . (he) writes with the relish of one who savours his subject and has deeply researched it. . . splendidly illustrated' - Ruth Rendell... ... Read more

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  • Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Robert Burlison ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A practical and informative guide for family historians interested in researching their British ancestry through social welfare records.Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about. Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors provides a ... Read more

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