Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550 1780
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series Series)
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Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living, Craig Muldrew uses empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the early modern English economy than has previously existed. The book integrates labourers into a study of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521881854
ISBN13:9780521881852
Release Date:March 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:374 Pages
Weight:1.58 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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