Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness - Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550-1780

Informationen zum Autor Craig Muldrew is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Klappentext A groundbreaking 2011 study of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the early modern English economy. Zusammenfassung Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy! food fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living! Craig Muldrew uses new empirical research to present a fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption! living standards and work than has previously existed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. What did the poor eat?; 3. Calories consumed by the poor; 4. Labourers' household goods; 5. Work and household earnings; 6. Agricultural labour and the industrious revolution; 7. 'Honest' and 'industrious' labourers?; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Craig Muldrew, Craig (University of Cambridge) Muldrew, Muldrew Craig
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521881852
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88185-2
• No. of pages: 374
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; England, European History, Economics, Social & cultural history, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599