Download or read book Poverty, Progress, and Population written by E. A. Wrigley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E.A. Wrigley, the leading historian of industrial England, exposes the inadequacy of what was once accepted wisdom regarding England's industrial revolution and suggests what he believes should replace it. He examines the issues from three viewpoints: economic growth; the transformation of the urban-rural balance; and demographic change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition, he shows why England's early modern economy and society grew faster and more dynamically than its continental neighbors.