| Description |
1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations |
| Contents |
v. 1. Industrialisation, 1700-1860 -- v. 2. Economic maturity, 1860-1939 -- v. 3. Structural change and growth, 1939-2000 |
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v. 1. Accounting for the Industrial Revolution / Joel Mokyr -- Industrial organisation and structure / Pat Hudson -- British population during the 'long' eighteenth century, 1680-1840 / E.A. Wrigley -- Agriculture during the industrial revolution, 1700-1850 / Robert C. Allen -- Industrialisation and technological change / Kristine Bruland -- Money, finance and capital markets / Stephen Quinn -- Trade: discovery, mercantilism and technology / C. Knick Harley -- Government and the economy, 1688-1850 / Ron Harris -- Household economy / Jane Humphries -- Living standards and the urban environment / Hans-Joachim Voth -- Transport / Simon Ville -- Education and skill of the British labour force / David Mitch -- Consumption in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain / Maxine Berg -- Scotland / T.M. Devine -- The extractive industries / Roger Burt -- The industrial revolution in global perspective / Stanley L. Engerman and Patrick K. O'Brien |
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v. 2. Long-run growth / Nicholas Crafts -- Population and regional development / Dudley Baines and Robert Woods -- Human capital and skills / Stephen Broadberry -- Manufacturing and technological change / Gary B. Magee -- The service sector / Mark Thomas -- Agriculture, 1860-1914 / Michael Turner -- Trade, 1870-1939: from globalisation to fragmentation / C. Knick Harley -- Foreign investment, accumulation and Empire, 1860-1914 / Michael Edelstein -- Enterprise and management / Tom Nicholas -- Domestic finance, 1860-1914 / P.L. Cottrell -- Living standards, 1860-1939 / George R. Boyer -- The British economy between the wars / Barry Eichengreen -- Unemployment and the labour market, 1870-1939 / Timothy J. Hatton -- British industry in the interwar years / Sue Bowden and David M. Higgins -- Industrial and commercial finance in the interwar years / Duncan M. Ross -- Scotland, 1860-1939: growth and poverty / Clive H. Lee -- Government and the economy, 1860-1939 / Roger Middleton |
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v. 3. The war-time economy, 1939-1945 / Peter Howlett -- Failure followed / success or success followed / failure? A re-examination of British economic growth since 1949 / Michael Kitson -- The performance of manufacturing / Stephen Broadberry -- A failed experiment: the state ownership of industry / Leslie Hannah -- Employment, education and human capital / Mary O'Mahony -- Money and monetary policy since 1945 / Susan Howson -- The financial services sector since 1945 / Katherine Watson -- Economic policy / Jim Tomlinson -- The welfare state, income and living standards / Paul Johnson -- The rise of the service economy / Robert Millward -- Impact of Europe / Larry Neal -- Technology in post-war Britain / Nickvon Tunzelmann -- Regional development and policy / Peter Scott -- British fiscal policy since 1939 / Tom Clark and Andrew Dilnot -- Industrial relations and the economy / William Brown |
| Summary |
Provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Pays particular attention to the explanation of quantitative and theory-based enquiry, but all forms of historical research are used to provide a comprehensive account of the development of the British economy. Vol. 1 covers the period 1700-1860 when Britain led the world in the process of industrialization. Vol. 2 examines the period 1860-1939 when British economic power was at its height. Vol. 3 covers the period 1939-2000, when Britain adjusted to a decline in manufacturing, an expansion of the service economy, and a repositioning of external economic activity towards Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economic history
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056671
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Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056673
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Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056675
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Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056676
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Floud, Roderick.
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Johnson, Paul (Paul A.)
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| LC no. |
2003046169 |
| ISBN |
9780511467042 |
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0511467044 |
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9781139053853 |
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113905385X |
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9780511467059 |
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0511467052 |
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9781139054539 |
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1139054538 |
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9780511467066 |
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0511467060 |
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9781139053983 |
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1139053981 |
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