Food, energy and the creation of industriousness : work and material culture in agrarian England, 15...
Food, energy and the creation of industriousness : work and material culture in agrarian England, 15...
Food, energy and the creation of industriousness : work and material culture in agrarian England, 1550-1780 / Craig Muldrew.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N641.30942/2
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English
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xvii, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. What did the poor eat?; 3. Calories consumed by the poor; 4. Labourers' household goods; 5. Work and household earnings; 6. Agricultural labour and the industrious revolution; 7. 'Honest' and 'industrious' labourers?; Conclusion.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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England
Date Published
2011.
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"Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living Craig Muldrew uses new empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the earl...
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Food, energy and the creation of industriousness : work and material culture in agrarian England, 1550-1780 / Craig Muldrew.
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Cambridge Studies in economic history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N641.30942/2
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74Vvd4AdX5LX
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0521881854
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641.30942
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991006021059702626
