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  • The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

    by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, Taylor Aucoin ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

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    An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    **A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster“Vigorous and engaging.”—Fintan O’Toole, The New YorkerA New Yorker Best Book of the Year**In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight’s devastation ... Read more

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  • The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Engines of Privilege

    Britain's Private School Problem

    by David Kynaston, Francis Green ...
    'Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation' John O'Farrell'We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters ... The appeal to act is heartfelt' Financial Times___________________Includes a new chapter, 'Moving Ahead?'Britain's private, fee-paying schools a... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ruth, Roger and Me

    Debts and Legacies

    by Andrew Dean ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In 'Ruth, Roger and Me', Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’. Drawing together memoir, history and interviews, he explores the experiences of ‘discomfort’ and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Welfare State We're In

    by James Bartholomew ...
    The welfare state is one of Britain's crowning achievements. Or is it? In this seminal book, now studied in universities in Britain and elsewhere, James Bartholomew advances the sacrilegious argument that, however well meaning its founders, the welfare state has done more harm than good. He argues that far from being the socialist utopia the post-war generation dreamed of, the welfare state has ... Read more

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  • The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster

    by W.H. Crawford ...
    The domestic linen industry left an indelible imprint on Ulster history. It was introduced by colonists from the north of England in the seventeenth century, before the arrival of the Huguenots, and encouraged by the landlords to improve their rentals.Earnings from raising flax, spinning yarn and weaving cloth, provided farming families with regular incomes that enabled them to lease small farms ... Read more

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  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

    by Matthew Kelly ...
    A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable womenIn Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activists have campaigned tirelessly for the right to roam through the countryside and the vital ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution

    by Jane Humphries ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk 1547–1600

    by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh ...
    Series Book 12 - Studies in Regional and Local History
    At the cutting edge of new social and demographic history, this book provides a detailed picture of the most comprehensive system of poor relief operated by any Elizabethan town. Well before the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, Hadleigh, Suffolk—a thriving woolen cloth center with a population of roughly 3,000—offered a complex array of assistance to many of its residents who could not provide for ... Read more

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  • Ruthless

    A New History of Britain's Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800

    by Edmond Smith ...
    A revelatory new history of Britain’s industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled itWas Britain’s industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency? Was it the country’s natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines, ores for its furnaces and food for its labourers? Or was it Britain’s colonies, where a brutalized enslaved ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Factory Girls

    The Working Lives of Women & Children

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever ... Read more

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