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Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550 1780

Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550 1780

Muldrew, Craig

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second

Cookbooks GeneralBritish History

ISBN10: 0521881854
ISBN13: 9780521881852
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 3 2011
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living, Craig Muldrew uses new empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the early modern English economy than has previously existed. The book integrates labourers into a study of the wider economy and engages with the history of food as an energy source and its importance to working life, the social complexity of family earnings, and the concept of the 'industrious revolution'. It argues that 'industriousness' was as much the result of ideology and labour markets as labourers' household consumption. Linking this with ideas about the social order of early modern England, the author demonstrates that bread, beer and meat were the petrol of this world, and a springboard for economic change.

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