| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The poor were not necessarily worse off in material matters than they are now: the agricultural laborer, indeed, was apparently better off in 1750 than at any other time between 1450*10 and 1850.*11 But it was a world still mainly medi??val in political, in economic, and in social relations: a world of status and of permanent social inequalities not differing essentially from the feudalism of the
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