Economic History Of Britain

Author : Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107038462

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson Pdf

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 : Roderick Floud,D. N. McCloskey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521425204

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The Economic History of Britain Since 1700 by Roderick Floud,D. N. McCloskey Pdf

The most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of recent British economic history currently available.

Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780415266727

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The First Industrial Nation by Peter Mathias Pdf

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 : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 0300124554

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The Enlightened Economy by Joel Mokyr Pdf

"In a vigorous discussion, which goes beyond the standard explanations that credit geographical factors, the role of markets, politics and society, Mokyr argues that the bases of the emergence of modern economic growth in Britain are to be found in what key players knew and believed, and how those convictions affected their economic behaviour. The belief in progress, coupled with the strategies to bring it about led Britain, and eventually most of the western world, into the modern era." "With a remarkably wide range of reference, and covering sectors of the British economy often neglected, this masterful book both synthesizes existing scholarship and provides a wholly new perspective for understanding Britain's economic development in the ageof the Industrial Revolution." --Book Jacket.

Author : Michael Moïssey Postan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520023250

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The Medieval Economy and Society by Michael Moïssey Postan Pdf

Author : Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107038455

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson Pdf

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.

Author : Roderick Floud,D. N. McCloskey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521414997

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The Economic History of Britain since 1700: by Roderick Floud,D. N. McCloskey Pdf

An economic history of Britain since 1700, in three volumes by thirty-nine eminent historians and economists, this book will succeed the first edition of "Floud and McCloskey" (published in 1981) as the leading textbook on its subject. The text has a firm economic basis, but emphasizes the historical context and chronology and is written in straightforward and jargon-free English. Volume 1 covers the period 1700-1860, that of Britain's rise to relative economic supremacy. Volume 2 discusses the period 1860-1939, that of the height of British economic power and of painful readjustment after 1914. Volume 3 considers the period since 1939, that of relative economic decline and of increasing involvement with the European Community.

Author : Arthur Birnie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:$B476802

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An Economic History of the British Isles by Arthur Birnie Pdf

Author : Stephen Broadberry,Bruce M. S. Campbell,Alexander Klein,Mark Overton,Bas van Leeuwen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107070783

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British Economic Growth, 1270–1870 by Stephen Broadberry,Bruce M. S. Campbell,Alexander Klein,Mark Overton,Bas van Leeuwen Pdf

This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.

Author : T.S. Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136586996

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An Economic History of England: the Eighteenth Century by T.S. Ashton Pdf

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 : Keith Wrightson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300094124

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Earthly Necessities by Keith Wrightson Pdf

Wrightson describes the basic institutions and relationships of economic life in Britain, tracing the processes of change, and examines how these changes affect men, women, and children of all ages. Illustrations.

Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521868273

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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective by Robert C. Allen Pdf

Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Author : Roderick Floud,D. N. McCloskey
Publisher : Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032600911

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The Economic History of Britain Since 1700: Volume 1, 1700-1860 by Roderick Floud,D. N. McCloskey Pdf

An economic history of Britain since 1700, in three volumes by thirty-nine eminent historians and economists, this book will succeed the first edition of 'Floud and McCloskey' (published in 1981) as the leading textbook on its subject. The text has a firm economic basis, but emphasises the historical context and chronology and is written in straightforward and jargon-free English. It will appeal particularly to first and second year university students, but is also suitable for anyone interested in the history of the British economy. Volume One covers the period 1700-1860, that of Britain's rise to relative economic supremacy.

Author : Donald Cuthbert Coleman
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015012921048

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History and the Economic Past by Donald Cuthbert Coleman Pdf

Is economic history a branch of economics or a part of history? The fusion of history and political economy attempted by the writers of the Scottish Enlightenment was destroyed when nineteenth-century English writers confined history to the political and constitutional past and attempted to make political economy an abstract science. This study of the rise and decline of economic history in Britain since the 18th century examines the emergence of economic history as an academic subject in opposition to both orthodox history and orthodox political economy. Discussing the 20th-century split between the "reformists" and the "neutralists," Coleman traces the remarkable boom in the subject after World War II and its decline in popularity in the last decade.

Author : Deirdre McCloskey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136586712

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Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840 by Deirdre McCloskey Pdf

These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it. The participants of the conference represented a broad range of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The first eleven papers deal with a variety of topics covering a period from 1840 to the 1920s. They focus on the performance of the British economy, and especially its businessmen, during the time of Britain's industrial maturity and relative decline. The papers and discussions reached a novel conclusion tha, contrary to commonly held opinion, the British economy performed well and that British businessmen were not lacking in entrepreneurial vigour compared with their German or American counterparts. But even more important for British historiography than this finding was the demonstration that economic and statistical methods can be applied successfully to the study of economic history. The papers in the concluding section discuss the origins and development of the new economic history and show that, as a substantial supplement to work along more traditional lines, its methods and application are both desirable and possible. This collection serves as an interesting report of research into a key period in British history, and also as a useful introductory account of the new economic history in the United Kingdom. This book was first published in 1971.