This work redefines the economic history of Early Modern Britain, by describing the basic insitutions and relationships of economic life, tracing the progress of change and examining how these changes affected men, women and children at all social levels. It is informed by the huge development of social history in the last thirty years of the 20th century, to emphasize the complexity and partial nature of change over the period, in the development of the world's first "market society".
Author Biography
Keith Wrightson was Professor of Social History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. He is now Professor of History at Yale University. Among his publications is ENGLISH SOCIETY, 1580-1680.
