Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Rural England - Social life Chapter 3. Rural England - Agriculture Chapter 4. Town life Chapter 5. The distribution of wealth and trade Chapter 6. Society - Wages - Profits Chapter 7. The King and his extraordinairy revenues Chapter 8. The famine and the plague Chapter 9. Discontent - Combination- Insurrection Chapter 10. The Landlord's remedies Chapter 11. The development of taxation Chapter 12. Labour and wages Chapter 13. The clergy till the reformation Chapter 14. Wages of labour after the rise in prices Chapter 15. The English poor law Chapter 16. English Husbandry from the rise in prices Chapter 17. Agriculture and agricultural wages in the eighteenth century Chapter 18. Wages in the nineteenth century Chapter 19. The present situation

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James E. Thorold Rogers