An Economic History of Modern Britain. The Early Railway Age. 1820-1850

London England: Cambridge University Press, 1959. Here - almost for the first time - we have a picture of normal society in a past age in the same fullness of detail as we can picture our own age. What the country looked like, what were the housing conditions of rich and poor, how men and goods were transported, what was the ordinary scale of enterprise in industry, agriculture, and finance, why agricultural labourers lived on bread and cheese and ale, who owned the land, what was the level of money wages and how much they would buy - these and a hundred other questions that suggest themselves to an inquirer interested in the economic organization of society are answered in order, explicitly, and without blurring of outlines for England a hundred years ago. It is the beginning of what we have never had before, a history of the English people (The Times) Fly page clipped. Slight wear and tear to D/J.. Second Edition. Reprinted.. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.