448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
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Britain’s role in the mid-nineteenth century as the world’s greatest economic power was an extraordinary phenomenon, foreshadowed in the Industrial Revolution of the century before and originating from a unique combination of global and indigenous factors.
In this study François Crouzet analyses the growth and – in late Victorian Britain – decline of the nation’s economy, drawing on an immense... Read more
List of tables Preface Introduction 1 Part 1: A macroeconomic survey Chapter 1. The demographic boom Chapter 2. Economic growth Chapter 3. The periodization of growth Chapter 4. Structural change Chapter 5. problems of growth Part 2: Sectoral studies Chapter 6. Agriculture Chapter 7. The textile industries Chapter 8. Iron, steel and coal Chapter 9. steam and the transport revolution Chapter 10. banks and credit Chapter 11. foreign trade and the export of capital Chapter 12. epilogue – the decline of the british economy? Select bibliography Index
Biography
François Crouzet is Professor of Northern European History at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
