Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550 1780

by Craig Muldrew

Book Overview

Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521881854
• ISBN13: 9780521881852
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"