Progress and Poverty

Amongst Daunton's previous publications are: Housing the Workers: A Comparative Perspective 1850-1914 (editor, Leciester UP, 1989), A Property-owning Democracy? Housing in Britain (Faber, 1987), House and Home in Victorian City, 1850-1914 (Edward Arnold, 1984), and Councillors and Tenants (Leicester UP, 1983)

• Progress and Poverty: The Possibilities of Growth 1: Agriculture and Rural Society Agricultural Production: The Limits of Growth The Rise of the Great Estates and the Decline of the Yeoman Open Fields and Enclosure: The Demise of Commonality 2: Industry and Urban Society Diversities of Industrialization The Domestic Systems of Manufacturers The Coming of the Factory Furnaces, Forges, and Mines Capital and Credit 3: Integrating the Economy Integration and Specialization Transport Merchants and Marketing Banks and Money Demand, Supply, and Industrialization 4: Poverty, Prosperity, and Population Births, Marriages, and Deaths The Standard of Living and the Social History of Wages Poor Relief and Charity 5: Public Policy and the State The Visible Hand: The State and the Economy Taxation and Public Finance Mercantilism and Free Trade Conclusion

Superb and wide-ranging survey of a fast changing field. Dr C. J. Schmitz, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St. Andrew's