This important new book, widely praised in hardcover (Yale UP) redefines the economic history of early modern Britain for a new generation of readers. Wrightson writes evocatively about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the process of change, and examining how these [...]

A fascinating picture of society and rural change in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change.[...]