Acknowledgements, Note on sources, method and perspectives, Introduction Country capitalism, Part I. Cradles of change, 1. CRADLES OF CHANGE: THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS, 2. TRAILS OF PROGRESS: THE REORIENTATION AND INTENSIFICATION OF TRAFFIC, 1600-1800, Part II. Neighbourhood to nation, 3. PROVERBIAL CULTURE, 4. TYNDALE AND ALL HIS SECT, 5. NEIGHBOURHOOD TO NATION: THE TROTMANS: A MIDDLE-RANK KIN-COALITION, 1512-1712, Part III. Two revolutionaries, 6. 'SMALL THINGES AND GRANDE DESIGNES': A REVOLUTIONARY'S HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 7. CUNNING MAN AND QUAKER: JOHN ROBERTS OF SIDDINGTON ST MARY, Part IV. The multitudes around us, 8. COMMUNITY AT THE BORDERS: MOCKERY AND MISRULE IN AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE, 9. 'A CONCATENATION OF VICIOUS HABITS': A SEASON OF RIOTS AND A PUBLIC DISCUSSION, 1738-41, 10. LASTING PREJUDICES: LANGUAGES OF SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION, Notes and references, Index

Through a series of sharply focused studies spanning three centuries, David Rollison explores the rise of capitalist manufacturing in the English countryside and the revolution in consciousness that accompanied it.