Book ID: CBB001320097

Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550--1780 (2011)

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Muldrew, Craig (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xvii + 355 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living Craig Muldrew uses new empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the early modern English economy than has previously existed. The book integrates labourers into a study of the wider economy and engages with the history of food as an energy source and its importance to working life, the social complexity of family earnings and the concept of the 'industrious revolution'. It argues that 'industriousness' was as much the result of ideology and labour markets as labourers' household consumption. Linking this with ideas about the social order of early modern England the author demonstrates that bread, beer and meat were the petrol of this world and a springboard for economic change

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Authors & Contributors
Spary, E. C.
Earle, Rebecca
Cataldi, Raffaele
Kümin, Beat
Oszajca, Paulina
Haushofer, Lisa
Concepts
Food and foods
Nutrition; dietetics
Science and economics
Public health
Medicine
Cooking and cuisine
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
16th century
Early modern
20th century
Places
England
Europe
Americas
Great Britain
Atlantic world
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
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