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An analysis of bread as a food and as a socio-economic factor in the British economy in the period 1770 to 1870. It covers cost efficiency and nutritional factors, flour production, market changes and manipulation, consumers and socio-economic groups, the transport of bread, and other matters.
List of contents
Contents: Introduction; The Bread Question; The Wheat Loaf; Milling and Baking; The Assize of Bread; Consumers and Consumption; Wheat Supply; Measuring Wheat Consumption; Value; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.
About the author
Christian Petersen (deceased) was a leading Sales Promotion Consultant and author. He moved to academic life in his early forties studying Modern History at New College Oxford and undertaking the research on which this book is based. He died suddenly in January 1993 with his work at an advanced stage. This book has been brought to completion by Andrew Jenkins of Exeter University.
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An analysis of bread as a food and as a socio-economic factor in the British economy in the period 1770 to 1870. It covers cost efficiency and nutritional factors, flour production, market changes and manipulation, consumers and socio-economic groups, the transport of bread, and other matters.
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'Complex problems are treated in a clear, not simplified manner, making this a book suitable for undergraduates as well as specialists. This is an essential purchase for all serious libraries.' THES 'will remain essential reading for students of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for a long time to come.' The Economic History Review ’...the publication of this research is to be welcomed, and the book will be a valuable reference source for many economic and social historians.’ English Historical Review 'This extremely valuable monograph on the economic importance of bread will probably be used at one time or another by almost all social and economic historians of early modern and industrial Great Britain.' Journal of Economic History
