Industry in the Countryside
Subtitle: Wealden Society in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780521893060
Subjects: Economic history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Industries - General; History; History - General History; History: World; Kent; Western Europe - General; Business & Economics-Industries - General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; Industries--England--Wealden--History--16th c; Industries--England--Wealden--History--16th century
First sentence: Historians - as Lesley Clarkson recently reminded us - seem to be born with an irrepressible urge to generalize; they regularly set out to construct historical models, and to generate wide-ranging hypotheses about historical change.