Download or read book The Vital Century written by John Rule and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rule uses the latest scholarship for a comprehensive and magisterial review xxx; of population, output, agriculture, manufacture, labour, communications, towns, finance and domestic and overseas markets xxx; through which he reassesses the 'vital century' in which the contours of the modern economy first emerge to view.