1. Atlantic Trade and British Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century / Kenneth Morgan -- 2. British Trade and European Economic Development (1750-1850) / Sidney Pollard -- 3. Nineteenth-century Ocean Trade and Transport / Peter Davies -- 4. Exports and British Economic Growth (1850-1914) / Charles Feinstein -- 5. Trade Policy and Growth: some European Experiences (1850-1940) / Forrest Capie -- 6. British Trade with Latin America (1870-1950) / Rory Miller -- 7. Imperial Power and Foreign Trade: Britain and India (1900-1970) / B. R. Tomlinson
Summary
This book explores the relationship between international trade and domestic economic growth in Britain since the eighteenth century. It was during this time that Britain enjoyed first a dominant role in world trade and then, from the outbreak of World War I saw its economic strength eclipsed by other emerging international powers. The essays here focus on two central concerns in the history of British economic development in the period: was overseas and colonial trade in the eighteenth century the principal motor of British industrial development? has the structure of Britain's overseas trade in the twentieth century been one of the factors contributing to the 'decline of the British industrial economy'? In exploring these central ideas, the book examines the evolving structures of British commercial relations, the development and impact of commercial policies and Britain's changing international economic position
Notes
"This volume is based on revised and expanded versions of papers that were first given at the fourth economic history summer school held at the Centre for Social History in the University of Warwick between 1986 and 1991."--Pref
