Apostles of Inequality : Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860

Handy, Jim.

Apostles of Inequality : Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860 - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2022. ©2022. - 1 online resource (303 pages)

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Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction: "The Multiplication of Wretchedness" -- PART ONE: Arthur Young, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Spread of Poverty -- 2. "The Yoke of Improvement" -- 3. "The Enchantment of Property" -- 4. "A Rooted Hatred Between the Rich and the Poor" -- PART TWO: Political Economy and "the Great Lottery of Life" -- 5. Political Economy and the Rural Poor -- 6. Nassau Senior and the New Poor Laws -- PART THREE: The Economist and a Political Economy "Ordained by Providence" -- 7. The Economist: "The Most Elementary Truths" -- 8. Bad Farming - The Ghost of a Dead Monopoly -- 9. Ireland: "They Lie Beyond the Pale" -- 10. Cooked Land, Cotton, and Slavery -- 11. Conclusion: "The Home-made Civilization of the Rural English" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Apostles of Inequality explores how changes to land use and ideas about political economy in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century England drove cottagers from the land and impoverished rural workers.

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Ländliche Entwicklung
Kleinbauer
Agrarpolitik
Agrargesellschaft
Wirtschaftliche Lage


Großbritannien



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