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HIST 251: Early Modern England

Lecture 23 - England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720. Professor Wrightson discusses the remarkable growth of the British economy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He examines the changed context of stable population and prices; regional agricultural specialization; urbanization; the expansion of overseas trade both with traditional European trading partners and with the Americas and the East; the growth of manufacturing industries which served both domestic and overseas markets, and the intensification of internal trade. He describes and explains the emergence of an increasingly closely articulated national market economy, closely linked to a nascent world economy in which Britain now played a core role. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 23 - England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. The Economy in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
[00:01:16] 2. Economic Growth
[00:08:36] 3. Agriculture and Polycentric Urbanism
[00:17:06] 4. Commerce
[00:30:46] 5. Industrial Agglomeration

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Lecture 23 - England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720
Instructor: Professor Keith E. Wrightson. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - General Introduction
Lecture 02 - "The Tree of Commonwealth": The Social Order in the Sixteenth Century
Lecture 03 - Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles
Lecture 04 - Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships
Lecture 05 - "Countries" and Nation: Social and Economic Networks and the Urban System
Lecture 06 - The Structures of Power
Lecture 07 - Late Medieval Religion and Its Critics
Lecture 08 - Reformation and Division, 1530-1558
Lecture 09 - "Commodity" and "Commonweal": Economic and Social Problems, 1520-1560
Lecture 10 - The Elizabethan Confessional State: Conformity, Papists and Puritans
Lecture 11 - The Elizabethan "Monarchical Republic": Political Participation
Lecture 12 - Economic Expansion, 1560-1640
Lecture 13 - A Polarizing Society, 1560-1640
Lecture 14 - Witchcraft and Magic
Lecture 15 - Crime and the Law
Lecture 16 - Popular Protest
Lecture 17 - Education and Literacy
Lecture 18 - Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians
Lecture 19 - Crown and Political Nation, 1604-1640
Lecture 20 - Constitutional Revolution and Civil War, 1640-1646
Lecture 21 - Regicide and Republic, 1647-1660
Lecture 22 - An Unsettled Settlement: The Restoration Era, 1660-1688
Lecture 23 - England, Britain, and the World: Economic Development, 1660-1720
Lecture 24 - Refashioning the State, 1688-1714
Lecture 25 - Concluding Discussion and Advice on Examination