Author : Theodore Cardwell Barker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415382491
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107038464
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.
Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0415266726
The industrial revolution of Britain is recognized today as a model for industrialization all over the world. Now with a new introduction by the author, this book is widely renowned as a classic text for students of this key period.
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Communication and traffic
ISBN :
Author : T.S. Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136586997
T.S. Ashton has sought less to cover the field of economic history in detail than to offer a commentary, with a stress on trends of development rather than on forms of organization or economic legislation. This book seeks to interpret the growth of population, agriculture, maufacture, trade and finance in eighteenth-century England. It throws light on economic fluctuations and on the changing conditions of the wage-earners. The approach is that of an economist and use is made of hitherto neglected statistics. But treatment and language are simple. The book is intended not only for the specialist but also for others who turn to the past for its own sake or for understanding the present. This book was first published in 1955.
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1316025586
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around the world to produce a set of volumes which are both a lucid textbook for students and an authoritative guide to the subject. The text 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. Volume I covers the period 1700–1860 when Britain led the world in the process of industrialisation. It will be an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students in history, economics and other social sciences.
Author : Arthur Birnie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9780415378727
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Christopher Ivor Savage
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Rick Szostak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0773562931
Szostak develops a model that establishes causal links between transportation and industrialization and shows how improvements in transportation could have a beneficial effect on an economy such as that of eighteenth-century England. This model shows the Industrial Revolution to involve four primary phenomena: increased regional specialization, the emergence of new industries, an expanding scale of production, and an accelerated rate of technological innovation. Through detailed analysis, Szostak explicates the effects of the different systems of transportation in France and England on the four components of the Industrial Revolution. He outlines the development in late eighteenth-century England of a reliable system of all-weather transportation, made up of turnpike roads and canals, that was far superior to the system in France at the same period. He goes on to examine in detail the iron, textile, and pottery industries in each country, focusing on the effect of the quality of available transportation on the decisions of individual entrepreneurs and innovators. Szostak shows that in every case these industries were more highly developed in England than in France.
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1316061159
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 1 tracks Britain's economic history in the period ranging from 1700 to 1870 from industrialisation to global trade and empire. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and apply quantitative methods. New approaches are proposed to classic issues such as the causes and consequences of industrialisation, the role of institutions and the state, and the transition from an organic to an inorganic economy, as well as introducing new issues such as globalisation, convergence and divergence, the role of science, technology and invention, and the growth of consumerism. Throughout the volume, British experience is set within an international context and its performance benchmarked against its global competitors.
