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

Apostles of Inequality : : Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760–1860 / / Jim Handy.

Between 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement. Most often these meant depriving cottagers and rural workers of access to land they could cultivate, despite evidence that they were the most productive farmers in a country constantly short...

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Handy, Jim,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Chapter One. Introduction: “The Multiplication of Wretchedness”
  • PART ONE Arthur Young, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Spread of Poverty
  • Chapter Two “The Yoke of Improvement”
  • Chapter Three “The Enchantment of Property”
  • Chapter Four “A Rooted Hatred Between the Rich and the Poor”
  • PART TWO Political Economy and “the Great Lottery of Life”
  • Chapter Five. Political Economy and the Rural Poor
  • Chapter Six. Nassau Senior and the New Poor Laws
  • PART THREE The Economist and a Political Economy “Ordained by Providence”
  • Chapter Seven. The Economist: “The most elementary truths”
  • Chapter Eight. Bad Farming – The Ghost of a Dead Monopoly
  • Chapter Nine. Ireland: “They Lie Beyond the Pale”
  • Chapter Ten. Cooked Land, Cotton, and Slavery
  • Chapter Eleven. Conclusion: “The Home-made Civilization of the Rural English”
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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