Poverty, progress, and population / E.A. Wrigley.

List of figures, ix -- List of tables, x -- Acknowledgements, xiii -- Introduction, 1 -- PART I. The wellsprings of growth -- 1. The quest for the industrial revolution, 17 -- 2. The divergence of England: the growth of the English economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 44 -- 3. Two kinds of capitalism, two kinds of growth, 68 -- 4. Men on the land and men in the countryside: employment in agriculture in early nineteenth-century England, 87 -- 5. The occupational structure of England in the midnineteenth century, 129 -- 6. Corn and crisis: Malthus on the high price of provisions, 204 -- 7. Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies, 212 -- 8. Malthus on the prospects for the labouring poor, 229 -- PART II. Town and country -- 9. City and country in the past: a sharp divide or a continuum?, 251 -- 10. The great commerce of every civilized society: urban growth in early modern Europe, 268 -- 11. Country and town: the primary, secondary, and tertiary peopling of England in the early modern period, 290 -- PART III. The numbers game -- 12. Explaining the rise in marital fertility in England in the long eighteenth century, 317 -- 13. No death without birth: the implications of English mortality in the early modern period, 351 -- 14. The effect of migration on the estimation of marriage age in family reconstitution studies, 367 -- 15. Demographic retrospective, 394 -- Bibliography, 441 -- Index, 455.