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The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham 1560-1765

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  • Levine, David

    (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)

  • Wrightson, Keith

    (Jesus College, Cambridge)

Abstract

This is the first intensive study of an industrial community in early modern England. Whickham, a village built on an underground mountain of coal in north-east England, was arguably Britain's first modern industrial society. David Levine and Keith Wrightson employ the latest techniques of socio-historical research and make full use of a wide variety of contemporary sources to explore many aspects of life in Whickham between 1560 and 1765. They bring together vital strands - including industrial development, agrarian change, social stratification, demography, religion, work, leisure, living standards, kinship and the family - to produce a rounded and vivid picture, which throws into relief the achievements, benefits, and costs of the complex process of industrialization. The development of Whickham is set in the larger context of socio-economic change during this period. This is a major contribution to the history of early modern England.

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  • Levine, David & Wrightson, Keith, 1991. "The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham 1560-1765," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198200666.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198200666
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    1. Peter M. Solar, 1995. "Poor relief and English economic development before the industrial revolution," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 48(1), pages 1-22, February.
    2. Tom Arkell, 2006. "Illuminations and distortions: Gregory King's Scheme calculated for the year 1688 and the social structure of later Stuart England," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 59(1), pages 32-69, February.
    3. Sebastian A.J. Keibek, 2016. "By-Employments In Early Modern England And Their Significance For Estimating Historical Male Occupational Structures," Working Papers 29, Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Cambridge, revised 21 Mar 2017.
    4. Maxine Berg & Pat Hudson, 1992. "Rehabilitating the industrial revolution," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 45(1), pages 24-50, February.
    5. A. T. Brown, 2014. "Estate management and institutional constraints in pre-industrial England: the ecclesiastical estates of Durham, c. 1400–1640," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 67(3), pages 699-719, August.
    6. David Oldroyd, 1999. "Through a glass clearly: management practice on the Bowes family estates c.1700-70 as revealed by the accounts," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(2), pages 175-201.
    7. Andy Holden & Warwick Funnell & David Oldroyd, 2009. "Accounting and the moral economy of illness in Victorian England: the Newcastle Infirmary," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 22(4), pages 525-552, May.

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