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100			_aMathias Peter
245			_aThe transformation of England : Essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century
260			_aNew York _bColumbia University Press _c1979
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505			_a CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface ; Part I Themes; 1 British industrialization: unique or not? 2 Skills and the diffusion of innovations from Britain in the eighteenth century ; 3 Who unbound Prometheus? Science and technical change, 1600-1800 45; 4 Science and technology during the Industrial Revolution: some general problems; 5 Capital, credit and enterprise in the Industrial Revolution ; 6 Taxation and industrialization in Britain, 1700-1870 116; 7 Adam's burden: historical diagnoses of poverty ; 8 Leisure and wages in theory and practice ; Part II Topics; 9 The social structure in the eighteenth century: a calculation by Joseph Massie ; 10 The people's money in the eighteenth century: the Royal Mint, trade tokens and the economy; 11 An industrial revolution in brewing, 1700-1830 209; 12 The entrepreneur in brewing, 1700-1830 231; 13 Agriculture and the brewing and distilling industries in the eighteenth century ; 14 Swords and ploughshares: the armed forces, medicine and public health in the late eighteenth century ; 15 The finances of freedom: British and American public finance during the War of Independence ; 16 Dr Johnson and the business world ; Index;
650			_a1.Economic conditions - UK - History - 18th century2.Social conditions - UK - History - 18th century
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