ABSTRACT
Economic historians have always been principally concerned with growth and development or their absence. For the last two hundred years in England growth has been associated with industrialisation and with the transfer of factors of production, particularly labour and capital, away from agriculture. At the same time, there was a transfer of people from the country to the town, so that the growth of urbanisation, the process whereby the typical or average Englishman came to live in a community more than 5,000 strong, has been associated with the process of growth. 1
