Essays in Economic History. Volume Two

London England: Edward Arnold, 1962. Hardback. From the library of G. Rude, author and historian, signed by him to inside cover. Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. Contents; The Norman Settlement of Yorkshire. Manorial Accounts of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchester. Services and Money Rents in the Thirteenth Century. The great European Famine of 1315, 1316 and 1317. Peasant Movements in England Before 1381. Labour Conditions in Essex in the Reign of Richard II. The Decay of Villeinage in East Anglia. The Fluctuations of the Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade During the Fourteenth Century. Evidences of Industrial Growth on Some Fifteenth-Century Manors. Seven Centurues of Building Wages. Seven Centuries of the Prices of Consumables, Compared With Builders' Wage-Rates. The Development of London as a Centre of Conspicious Consumption in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Movement of Rent, 1540-1640. The Inclosure of Common Fields in the Seventeenth Century. English Foreign Trade 1660-1700. Joint-Stock Investment in the later Seventeenth Century. Labour in the English Economy of the Seventeenth Century. The Agricultural Depression, 1730-1750. Coke of Norfolk and the Agrarian Revolution. London Private Bankers, 1720-1785. Aspects of English Economic Growth in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century. 373 pp. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback.