English Economic History. Select documents

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Various impressions. Early work intended as an aid for teachers and students, covering a then-neglected area. Provides transcriptions of a wide range of economic history documents, arranged in three chronological sections: 1]'1000-1485' - 'The early English manor and borough' / 'The feudal structure' / The Jews' / 'The manor' / 'Towns and guilds' / 'Regulation of trade, industry and commerce' / 'Taxation, customs and currency'; 2] '1485-1660' - 'Rural conditions' /Towns and guilds' / 'Regulation of industry and the state' / 'The relief of the poor and the regulation of prices' / 'Encouragement of industry and commerce'; 3] '1660-1846' - 'Industrial organisation and social conditions' / 'Agricultural enclosures' / 'Government regulation of wages, conditions of employment and public health' / 'Combinations of workmen' / 'The relief of the poor' / 'Finance and foreign trade'