...Society, p. 12; Laslett, p. 190). England was the beneficiary of a "revolution" in farming techniques from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth (EL Jones, in Jones, ed., pp. 7, 12, 152; D. Marshall, p. 8). The improvement in farming...

...secure the desired end? In Britain, with a highly sophisticated private market in land, there was, from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, remarkably little desire - or for that matter capacity - on the part of government to take direct action...

...for only a short period of time — a period much shorter than is usually imagined, extending only from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth. From the moment when chords no longer serve to fulfill merely the functions assigned to them by the...

...be sickly, we cannot easily expect much Health by it.15 Mixed Notices for Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate From the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century, a variety of extreme opinions about the three temperance beverages competed in...

...hearing for this proposal is the dismal record of the dominance of the political order in the past. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the twentieth, such dominance existed, and in the twentieth century the resulting nationalism led to two...

...across the road, PichonLongueville Baron, which is owned by the giant French insurance company AXA. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth, there was one estate, Pichon-Longueville Baron. Because of inheritance laws, the estate was divided...

...out of date. England's population probably had been roughly stable at slightly more than 5 million from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth. But then the population had resumed growing, reaching 8 million people by 1798. Overall...