Author : Rex Pope
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1317884906
An up to date short study which examines the key debates on British economic performance since 1914. Rex Pope considers the indicators and measures involved in assessing economic performance and then looks at issues affecting the economy such as the role of government, British entrepreneurship, the state of world markets, the effect of the two world wars and the importance of cultural attitudes towards industry.
Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 28,49 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 : Professor Michael Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134540302
This is the first comprehensive survey of the economic development of the world's first great industrial metropolis. Modern theories of urban economics are used to shed new light on the process of change in the city.
Author : Donald Winch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197262726
How did Britain emerge as a world power and later as the world's first industrial society? What policies, cultural practices, and institutions were responsible for this outcome? How were the inevitable disruptions to social and political life coped with? This innovative volume illustrates the contribution of economic thinking (scientific, official and popular) to the public understanding of British economic experience over the period 1688-1914. Political economy has frequently served as the favourite mode of public discourse when analysing or justifying British economic policies, performance and institutions. These sixteen essays, centering on the peculiarities of the British experience, are grouped under five main themes: foreign assessments of that experience; land tenure; empire and free trade; fiscal and monetary regimes; and the poor law and welfare. This is a collaborative endeavour by historians with established reputations in their field, which will appeal to all those interested in the current development of these branches of historical scholarship.
Author : Derek Howard Aldcroft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415438896
The European Economy Since 1914 provides an invaluable guide to the major economic changes in both Western and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century.
Author : Bernard W.E. Alford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317872800
Bernard Alford reviews the changing role, and diminishing influence, of Britain within the international economy across the century that saw the apogee and loss of Britain's empire, and her transformation from globe-straddling superpower to off-shore and indecisive member of the European Community. He explores the relationship between empire and economy; looks at economic performance against economic policy; and compares Britain - through and beyond the Thatcher years - with her European partners, America and Japan. In assessing whether Britain's economic decline has been absolute or merely relative, he also illuminates the broader history of the world economy itself.
Author : Derek H. Aldcroft
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 1969-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 134915346X
Author : Stephen Broadberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139448358
This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.
Author : Richard Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199646546
A week before the outbreak of the First World War, an acute financial crisis surged over London: the Stock Exchange closed; money markets worldwide were paralysed. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, press reports, and official archives, this book tells the extraordinary, and largely unknown, story of the first true global financial crisis.
Author : Norman McCord
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0199233195
This fully revised and updated new edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.
