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Part 1. Preliminaries -- Chapter 1. Strategic Locations -- Chapter 2. Sources: Artefacts -- Chapter 3. Sources: Documents -- Chapter 4. Post-war Time Shift -- Part Two: Localities -- Chapter 5. Chalk Downs -- Chapter 6. Heathland -- Chapter 7. Lot Meads -- Chapter 8. Drove Roads -- Chapter 9. Colonising the Hill Country -- Chapter 10. Parkland -- Chapter 11. Resources: Fodder -- Chapter 12. Resources: Wool & Wood -- Chapter 13. Conclusions.

Part One. The Erosion of Obstacles -- 1.Barriers and Push Forces -- 2. Military and Ecclesiastical Buildings -- 3. Dissolution of the Monasteries -- 4. Civil War -- 5. Communal Farming and Under-used Land -- 6. Tithes -- 7. Archaic Institutions -- 8. Obstructive Infrastructure -- 9. Maladministration -- Part Two. Coping with Shocks -- 10. Disease -- 11. Insults to agriculture -- 12. Storms and adverse seasons -- 13. Floods -- 14. Fires -- Conclusions.

Key Features:First book to integrate the experience of northern and southern England during the industrial revolution, explaining industrialisation through a common process of market integration and regional competitionIncorporates politics and ideas in the analysis of economic changeThe only comprehensive economic history of southern England as it de-industrialised during the industrial revolution period.

"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. Bringing immense learning and originality to the issue of cultural change over the long-term course of global economic history, Jones questions cultural explanations of much social

ABSTRACTReasons are given for doubting the currently fashionable thesis that economic growth and industrialisation in the case of England derived from establishing secure property rights after 1688. Customary and public rights remained at risk. Ancient arrangements often persisted far into Victorian times. Detailed evidence is presented of survivals and of illiquid features in the land market. Evidence is also given of endemic disputes over enclosure and tithes. Unlike some European countries, England failed to establish a land registry. Limited transactions probably reflected unwillingness to risk litigation. That unsatisfactory property rights did not, however, stifle growth is tribute to the underlying power of the market.