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An Economic History of Modern Britain

An Economic History of Modern Britain

An Economic History of Modern Britain

Free Trade and Steel 1850–1886
Volume 2:
John Clapham
February 2009
2
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9780521101004
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    When the first volume of this work was published, The Times welcomed the book and the project in these words: Here - almost for the first time - we have a picture of normal society in a past age in the same fullness of detail as we can picture our own age. It is the beginning of what we have never had before, a history of the English people. This second volume covers the period of the Great Exhibition and the development of the production of cheap mass-produced steel; the railway system continued to grow and the fortunes of canals and decline. It was an era of free trade and of great expansion in Britain's overseas trade. Industrial and housing conditions were slowly beginning to improve and the status of trade unions was legalised.

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    February 2009
    Paperback
    9780521101004
    572 pages
    229 × 32 × 152 mm
    0.83kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Book III: Free Trade and Steel
    • 1. Britain and the Nations 1848–53
    • 2. The Industrial Field in 1851
    • 3. The Course of Industrial Change
    • 4. The development of Industrial Organisation
    • 5. Communications
    • 6. Overseas trade and commercial policy
    • 7. Agriculture
    • 8. The Organisation of Commerce
    • 9. Money, Prices, Banking and Investment
    • 10. The Economic Activities of the State
    • 11. Life and Labour in Industrial Britain
    • 12. The Face of the Country, 1886–7
    • Index
    • Plates and Diagrams.
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    • John Clapham