John Anthony Chartres (born January 1946) is the former professor of economic and social history at the

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. He is a specialist in the

economic history Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the Applied economics ...

agriculture in England Agriculture in England is today intensive, highly mechanised, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with only 2% of the labour force. It contributes around 2% of GDP. Around two thirds of production is devoted to l ...

Selected publications

Books

* ''Internal trade in England, 1500-1700''. Macmillan, London, 1977. * ''Pre-Industrial Britain''. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. (Editor & contributor) * ''Agricultural Markets and Trade, 1500-1750''.

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, 2003. (Editor)

Other

* "English Landed Society and the Servants Tax of 1777" in N. Harte & R. Quinault (Eds.) (1996) ''Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F. M. L. Thompson'', Manchester,

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, pp. 34–56. * "Foires et Marchés en Angleterre de 1500 à 1850" in C. Desplat (Ed.) (1996) ''Foires et Marchés dans les Campagnes de l'Europe médiévale et moderne, Actes des XIVes Journées Internationales d'Histoire de l'Abbaye de Flaran'', Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse, pp. 153–175. * "Leeds: Regional Distributive Centre of Luxuries in the later Eighteenth Century", '' Northern History'', XXXVIl (2000), pp. 115–132. * "Part IV: Trade, Commerce and Industry" in E.J.T. Collins (Ed.) (2000) ''The Agrarian History of England & Wales, VII, 1850-1914'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 947–1225. * "The Eighteenth-century English Inn: a transient "Golden Age" " in B. Kümin & B.A. Tlusty (Eds.) (2002) ''The World of the Tavern: Public Houses in Early Modern Europe'', Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 205-226. * "Producers, crops and markets 1600-1800" in J. Broad (Ed.) (2009) ''A common agricultural heritage? Revising French and British rural divergence'', Agricultural History Review, Supplement Series 5, British Agricultural History Society, Exeter, pp. 138–154.

References

Academics of the University of Leeds 1946 births Living people Historians of agriculture Historians of England Economic historians English historians {{UK-historian-stub