Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700-1850.
本书考察了1700-1850年英国从农业国转变为工业国的结构性变化、全国市场形成和经济增长,核心探讨贫困与进步的关系,适合研究18-19世纪英国历史的学生和学者。
This is a major college text. It will become prescribed reading for anyone studying British history in the 18th and 19th centuries. The book examines the massive structural change, the creation of national markets, and the economic growth which characterized the movement from agriculture to industry. In 1700 Britain was a rural country. By 1850, the year before the Great Exhibition, it was 'the workshop of the world'. The debate on the relationship between poverty and progress is at the core of this clear and wide-ranging analysis of the world's first industrialized nation.