Studies of Kent's economic history confirm the industrial revolution to have been less cataclysmic and more widespread then formerly accepted.

This work looks at the transformation of Kent's government from a system controlled by a small number of landed families into one in which, on the eve of WWI, a

Early Modern Kent offers an accessible but scholarly introduction to the country's history during a century of extraordinary change."--BOOK JACKET.

James Preston provides an illustraded history on malting and the malthouses in Kent.

This is the sixth volume of the ten-volume history of the county of Kent. Each of the 10 chapters begins by evoking a picture of Kent on the eve of World War I