Routledge Library Editions: Economic History reprints some of the most important works on economic history published in the last century.
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By L.C.A Knowles
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to bring out the causes which led to the coming of machinery and which made Great Britain the workshop of the world for a large part of the nineteenth century. Knowles especially stresses the world position of the United Kingdom during the ...
By George Herbert Perris
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. The purpose of this title is to outline the facts and to interpret the spirit of the economic history of Britain one hundred and fifty years prior to original publication. The author chose to focus within such limits of social transformation and, from this, they then ...
By Paul Mantoux
February 05, 2015
This classic volume, first published in 1928, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Arranged in three distinct parts, it covers: * Preparatory Changes* Inventions and Factories* The Immediate Consequences. A valuable reference, it is, as Professor T. S. ...
By Alfred Plummer
February 05, 2015
The Worshipful Company of Weavers, the oldest of all the London Livery Companies, can trace its origins to a twelfth-century craft guild. Largely based upon original records never before studied in depth, this authorized history of the company covers the period from the end of the reign of ...
By H.E.S Fisher
February 05, 2015
Historians have long considered the ways in which the expansion of English trade beyond Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contributed to the growth of English overseas trade as a whole, and to the coming of the Industrial Revolution. Their concentration on trade between England and...
By Roger Middleton
February 05, 2015
This is a major study of economic policy making in Britain between the wars. It provided the first full-length analysis of the early development of fiscal policy as a tool of modern economic management. The central question addressed is how Keynesian fiscal policies came to be adopted by the ...
By A.E. Musson
February 05, 2015
There is perhaps no area of British life where attitudes are more strongly influenced by shared traditions and past experiences than the trade union movement; the memory of the working-class movements is a long one. It is therefore all the more important in the light of recent events to examine the...
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By William Arthur
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. Part of a series on Economic History, this book looks at Tropical Development from 1880 to 1913. These essays were prepared during the year 1967-8 for the tropics modern economic development began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century with its revolutionary ...
By B.W.E Alford
February 05, 2015
This independent and critical study in economic and social history is based on free access to the records of W.D. & H.O. Wills. Dr Alford traces the history of the firm from its origin to its transformation into a constituent part of a larger company. Having played such a leading role in the ...
By Dorothy Marshall
September 11, 2014
Dr Dorothy Marshall covers a vital period in English social development, during which the traditional social hierarchy of order and degree was giving place to a class society marked by the growth of a self-conscious working class. The author shows how, between 1776 and 1851, industrialization ...
By Charles Austin Beard
February 13, 2013
First published in 2005. Taking a look at the Industrial Revolution from 1760 in English Agriculture, Manufacturing and politics and also discussing the mechanical revolution and its economic and social effects., this book puts forward that the civilised world has been changed, and social duties, ...
By Forrest Capie, Alan Webber
April 10, 2006
This book is the culmination of a major research programme on the monetary history of the United Kingdom. This volume contains monetary series ranging from detailed balance sheet material to monetary aggregates such as M3 and are in monthly, quarterly and annual form. The data are drawn ...