CHAPTER 7: THE TURNING POINT
The story of Lee’ s machine and meeting with Queen Elizabeth I is available at calverton. homestead. com / willlee. html. Allen( 2009b) presents the data on real wages using
Diocletian’ s Edict on Maximum Prices. Our argument about the causes of the Industrial Revolution is highly influenced by the arguments made in North and Thomas( 1973), North and Weingast( 1989), Brenner( 1993), Pincus( 2009), and Pincus and Robinson( 2010). These scholars in turn were inspired by earlier Marxist interpretations of British institutional change and the emergence of capitalism; see Dobb
( 1963) and Hill( 1961, 1980). See also Tawney’ s( 1941) thesis about how the state building project of Henry VIII changed the English social structure.
The text of the Magna Carta is available online at the Avalon Project, at avalon. law. yale. edu / medieval / magframe. asp.
Elton( 1953) is the seminal work on the development of state institutions under Henry VIII, and Neale( 1971) relates these to the evolution of parliament. On the Peasants’ Revolt, see Hilton( 2003). The quote from Hill on monopolies is from Hill( 1961), p. 25. On Charles I’ s period of“ personal rule,” we follow Sharp( 1992). Our evidence on how different groups and regions sided either for or against Parliament comes from Brunton and Pennington( 1954), Hill( 1961), and Stone( 2001). Pincus( 2009) is fundamental on the Glorious Revolution and discusses many of the specific changes in policies and economic institutions; for example, the repeal of the Hearth Tax and the creation of the Bank of England. See also Pincus and Robinson( 2010). Pettigrew( 2007, 2009) discusses the attack on monopolies, including the Royal African Company, and our data on petitioning comes from his papers. Knights( 2010) emphasizes the political importance of petitioning. Our information on Hoare’ s Bank comes from Temin and Voth( 2008).
Our information about Superviser Cowperthwaite and the excise tax bureaucracy comes from Brewer( 1988).