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A Reply to Kumar's "Omission of Data in Wrigley's 'Reconsidering the Industrial Revolution'"
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- The MIT Press
- Volume 51, Number 2, Autumn 2020
- pp. 301-302
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
Kumar's criticism is justified but only because the article in question failed to specify that England had achieved self-sufficiency in temperate foodstuffs rather than all foodstuffs. The ability of English agriculture between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries to meet the country's temperate foodstuff needs was notable, especially as the number of men employed on farms changed only marginally.