The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England
Explores the concept of improvement which took root in seventeenth-century England, the political and economic circumstances which led to its rise, the effect it had on the society and culture of England, and its subsequent outreach as the British Empire spread.
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-964591-6
- EAN: 9780199645916
- Produktnummer: 17116282
- Verlag: Practitioner Law
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.7 cm x D3.2 cm 664 g
- Gewicht: 664
Über den Autor
Paul Slack is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (1990), From Reformation to Improvement: Public welfare in early modern England (1999) and books on urban history and poverty in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has been editor of the journal Past and Present, is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was Principal of LinacreCollege, Oxford, until 2010.
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