A Concise Economic History Of Britain: From The Earliest Times To 1750
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Long before the age of steam and industry reshaped the world, Britain's economic foundations were being laid across centuries of agricultural toil, mercantile ambition, and evolving social structures — and Sir John Clapham's A Concise Economic History of Britain: From the Earliest Times to 1750 chronicles this sweeping journey with authoritative clarity. Beginning in prehistory and advancing through the Roman occupation, the medieval agrarian economy, the rise of trade guilds, and the early stirrings of commercial capitalism, the work presents a remarkably comprehensive portrait of how Britain's wealth was built, distributed, and contested long before the Industrial Revolution. Clapham, one of the foremost economic historians of the twentieth century, writes with the measured precision of a scholar who commanded vast archival sources without ever losing sight of the human realities behind the data. His prose is lucid and authoritative, synthesising complex economic forces — land tenure, population pressures, monetary systems, and nascent proto-industrial activity — into a cohesive and accessible narrative. A landmark text in British historiography, this volume remains an essential reference for anyone seeking to understand the deep economic roots that made Britain the world's first industrial nation — leaving the reader to wonder how much of that ancient structure still quietly endures today.
Author: Sir John Clapham
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Cambridge University Press
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Long before the age of steam and industry reshaped the world, Britain's economic foundations were being laid across centuries of agricultural toil, mercantile ambition, and evolving social structures — and Sir John Clapham's A Concise Economic History of Britain: From the Earliest Times to 1750 chronicles this sweeping journey with authoritative clarity. Beginning in prehistory and advancing through the Roman occupation, the medieval agrarian economy, the rise of trade guilds, and the early stirrings of commercial capitalism, the work presents a remarkably comprehensive portrait of how Britain's wealth was built, distributed, and contested long before the Industrial Revolution. Clapham, one of the foremost economic historians of the twentieth century, writes with the measured precision of a scholar who commanded vast archival sources without ever losing sight of the human realities behind the data. His prose is lucid and authoritative, synthesising complex economic forces — land tenure, population pressures, monetary systems, and nascent proto-industrial activity — into a cohesive and accessible narrative. A landmark text in British historiography, this volume remains an essential reference for anyone seeking to understand the deep economic roots that made Britain the world's first industrial nation — leaving the reader to wonder how much of that ancient structure still quietly endures today.