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The Agricultural Sector in the age of Industrialization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Neil Tranter
Neil Tranter
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University of Stirling
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The Historical Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 189 - 194
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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1 For a summary of previous methods of estimating agricultural output see Crafts, N. F. R., British economic growth during the Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1985), pp. 38–42Google Scholar.

2 See Jackson, R. V., ‘Growth and deceleration in English agriculture, 1660–1780’, Economic History Review, XXXVIII, 3 (1985), 333–51Google Scholar. Crafts, , British economic growth, pp. 42–4Google Scholar. And compare with Deane, P. and Cole, W. A., British economic growth, 1688–1959 (Cambridge, 1967 edn), pp. 65–78Google Scholar.

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