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From International Socialism (1st series), No.29, Summer 1967, p.38.
Thanks to Ted Crawford & the late Will Fancy.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
England’s Apprenticeship 1603-1763
Charles Wilson
Longmans
The Professor of Modern History at Cambridge traces fully and carefully the main developments in agriculture, industry and trade; in government policy and public finances; in science and philosophy through the revolutionary century and a half which paved the way for the industrial revolution and the rise of the modern bourgeoisie. It is a confusing period, with the class forces less easily identifiable than in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. But it is fascinating precisely because it saw the foundations of capitalism being laid and the slow, tortuous progress of the capitalists towards their modern ascendency. Professor Wilson is a clear and extremely readable guide through the maze.
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