Books by John Rule

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the current state of our knowledge of the social conditions, experiences and reactions of working people during the period 1750xxx;1850.

A collection of essays which examine responses to the struggle to live, in Southern England during 1740-1850. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a "moral economy".

John Rule uses the latest scholarship for a comprehensive and magisterial review xxx; of population, output, agriculture, manufacture, labour, communications, towns, finance and domestic and overseas markets xxx; through which he reassesses the 'vital century' in which the contours of the modern economy first emerge to view.

Part of the "Social and Economic History of England" series, this text examines England's social and economic history between 1714 and 1815. It considers the social order, changes in the standards of living, patterns of crime and punishment and social and industrial protest.