Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860 by Handy, Jim
Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860 by Handy, Jim

Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860

Between 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement. Most often...
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Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860 by Handy, Jim

Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860

$254.83
Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860 by Handy, Jim

Apostles of Inequality: Rural Poverty, Political Economy, and the Economist, 1760-1860

$254.83
Author: Jim Handy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Between 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement. Most often these meant depriving cottagers and rural workers of access to land they could cultivate, despite evidence that they were the most productive farmers in a country constantly short of food.

Drawing from a wide range of contemporary sources, Apostles of Inequality argues that such attempts, driven by a flawed faith in the wonders of capital, did little to increase agricultural productivity and instead led to a century of increasing impoverishment in rural England. Jim Handy rejects the assertions about the benefits that accompanied the transition to improved agriculture and details the abundant evidence for the efficiency of smallholder, peasant agriculture. He traces the development of both economic theory and government policy through the work of agricultural improver Arthur Young (1741-1820), government advisor Nassau William Senior (1790-1864), and the editors and writers of the Economist, as well as Adam Smith and Thomas Robert Malthus.

Apostles of Inequality demonstrates how a fascination with capital - promoted by political economy and farmers' desires to have a labour force completely dependent on wage labour - fostered widespread destitution in rural England for over a century.



Author: Jim Handy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 06/01/2022
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781487563530

About the Author
Handy, Jim: - Jim Handy is a professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan.
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