Population, Welfare and fiscal Change offers the most recent study at the motives and results of British inhabitants swap from the medieval interval to the eve of the commercial Revolution, in either city and nation-state. Its overarching difficulty is with the industrial and demographic decision-making of people and teams and the level to which those have been restricted by means of associations and assets. inside this, the volume's specific concentration is on inhabitants development: its explanations and the welfare demanding situations it posed. a number of chapters examine the good fortune with which the English outdated terrible legislations supplied deal with the negative and aged, and new paintings on substitute welfare associations, similar to almshouses, is additionally presented.
yet another virtue of this ebook is its comparative point of view. by means of making systematic comparisons among monetary and demographic advancements in pre-industrial Britain and people happening in numerous areas of up to date Continental Europeand Russia, numerous chapters discover how a long way Britain during this interval was once 'different'. Stimulating to specialists and scholars alike, Population, Welfare and financial Change deals overviews and summaries of the most recent scholarship through major financial historians and historic demographers, along unique case experiences which show off the unique learn of more youthful scholars.

Chris Briggs is Lecturer in Medieval British monetary and Social historical past on the college of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn collage. P.M. Kitson is a former examine affiliate on the Cambridge staff for the heritage of inhabitants and Social constitution and Bye-Fellow of Downing university, Cambridge. S.J. Thompson is a former J.H. Plumb Fellow and Director of experiences in historical past at Christ's university, Cambridge.

participants: Lorraine Barry, Jeremy Boulton, Chris Briggs, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Tracy Dennison, Nigel Goose, R.W. Hoyle, Peter Kitson, Julie Marfany, Rebecca Oakes, Sheilagh Ogilvie,Stephen Thompson, Samantha Williams, Sir Tony Wrigley, Margaret Yates