Earthly necessities : economic lives in early modern Britain, 1470-1750

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".