Bread and the British Economy, 1770–1870 - Bog af Christian Petersen - Paperback
In this ambitious book Christian Petersen has taken a central topic in economic and social history and given it a new sweep and coherence. As the LordΓÇÖs Prayer suggests, securing an adequate supply of bread was a matter of over-riding concern to everyone until very recently. Bread was always by far the largest single item in the budgets of the poor, but bread could be made from many grains - wheat, rye, barley etc. Christian Petersen describes how in the later eighteenth century the process..
Bread and the British Economy, 1770–1870 - Christian Petersen
In this ambitious book Christian Petersen has taken a central topic in economic and social history and given it a new sweep and coherence. As the LordΓÇÖs Prayer suggests, securing an adequate supply of bread was a matter of over-riding concern to everyone until very recently. Bread was always by far the largest single item in the budgets of the poor, but bread could be made from many grains - wheat, rye, barley etc. Christian Petersen describes how in the later eighteenth century the process..