General Editor's Introduction: R. A. Church and E. A. Wrigley.

Introduction: J. A. Chartres.

Part I: Background and Macroeconomic Perspective: .

1. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: the Dark Ages in English Economic History?: F. J. Fisher.

2. Economic History and Economic Underdevelopment: Barry E. Supple.

3. Agriculture and the Home Market for English Industry, 1660-1820: Patrick O'Brien.

Part II: Agriculture:.

4. Seventeenth-century Agriculture and Social Change: Joan Thirsk.

5. The Chronology of English Enclosure, 1500-1914: J. R. Wordie.

6. The Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Early Modern England: Turnips and Clover in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1580-1740: M. Overton.

Part III: External Trade:.

7. English Foreign Trade 1660-1700: R. Davis.

8. English Foreign Trade 1700-1774: R. Davis.

9. The Plantation Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, 1625-1775: Richard B. Sheridan.

Part IV: Towns and Internal Trade: .

10. A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy, 1650-2750: E. A. Wrigley.

11. Food Consumption and Internal Trade: J. A. Chartres.

12. Urban Improvements and the English Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: E. L. Jones and M. E. Falkus.

Part V: Demographic Change and its Implications:.

13. The Impact of Scarcity and Plenty on Population Change in England 1541-1871: Roger Schofield.

14. The Demographic Implications of Rural Industrialization: A Family Reconstitution Study of Shepshed, Leicestershire, 1600-2851: David Levine.

15. Migration in England during the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: Peter Clark.

Part VI: Industry and Employment:.

16. Industries in the Countryside: J. Thirsk.

17. The Proto-Industrial Family Economy: the Structural Function of Household and Family During the Transition from Peasant to Industrial Capitalism.

18. Labour in the English Economy of the seventeenth Century: D. C. Coleman.

19. Health, Work and Leisure before the Industrial Revolution: Herman Freudenberger and Gaylord Cummins.

Part VII: Public and Private Finance: .

20. London Private Bankers, 1720-1785: D. M. Joslin.

21. Credit in English Rural Society before the Nineteenth Century, with Special Reference to the Period 1650-1720: B. A. Holderness.

Acknowledgements.

J. A. Chartres is Professor of Business and Economics at the University of Leeds.