Table of Contents

Introduction; A.Digby & C.Feinstein - PART 1 AGRICULTURE - Agricultural Revolution?: England, 1540-1850; M.Overton - Parliamentary Enclosures: Gains and Costs; M.Turner - The Highland Clearances; T.Devine - PART 2 ECONOMY - Domesday Book; S.Harvey - The Industrial Revolution: Economic Growth in Britain, 1700-1860; N.Crafts - Imperialism; T.Hopkins - The Rise and Fall of the Managed Economy; R.Middleton - PART 3 SOCIETY - Population Growth: England 1680-1820; E.A.Wrigley - Standards of Living and Industrialisation; R.Floud - Women and Society: Continuity and Change since 1870; J.Lewis - The British Welfare State, its Origins and Character; P.Thane - PART 4 LABOUR - Chartism; E.Royle - Labour and Class in the Nineteenth Century; B.Morris - Social Control in Modern Britain; M.Thompson