ABSTRACT
The most satisfactory general survey is by S. Pollard and D. W. Crossley, The Wealth of Britain (Batsford, 1968). It should be supplemented by H. Heaton, Economic History of Europe (Harper, rev. edn 1948). There are indispensable studies of particular periods in the early volumes of the Oxford History of England by R. G. Collingwood, F. M. Stenton, and M. McKisack, and of particular problems in the medieval volumes of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Some of the articles reprinted in E. M. Carus-Wilson (ed.) Essays in Economic History (Arnold, 3 vols, 1954-62, pb 1966) are invaluable. And A. R. Bridbury, Economic Growth (Allen & U., 1962) is the only recent account of the social and economic history of the later Middle Ages.
