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Historian Beverly Lemire's highly innovative economic, social and gender analyses of the changing material world have transformed scholars' understanding of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Her two internationally acclaimed monographs established the centrality of the ordinary consumer in the cotton industry and of the second-hand trade and of pawnbroking in the early modern economy. Lemire has launched imaginative interdisciplinary initiatives and provided the fields of history and of development studies with new ways of assessing women's long-term economic agency. Her current research further extends her ground-breaking analysis of the transition to modern society.

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Historian Beverly Lemire's highly innovative economic, social and gender analyses of the changing material world have transformed scholars' understanding of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Lemire has launched imaginative interdisciplinary initiatives and provided the fields of history and of development studies with new ways of assessing women's long-term economic agency.