First Industrial Nation The Economic History of Britain 1700-1914

Name: First Industrial Nation The Economic History of Britain 1700-1914
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ISBN: 9780415266727

ISBN-10: 0415266726

ISBN-13: 9780415266727

Edition: 3rd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Mathias

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This celebrated and seminal work examines the industrial revolution, from its genesis in pre-industrial Britain, through its development and into maturity.The First Industrial Nationcharts the changes in the British economy, agriculture, trade finance, labor and transport, from 1700 to the inter-war years of the twentieth century. First published in 1969, and now with a new introductionThe First Industrial Nationis widely recognized as the classic tome on the industrial revolution.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.50" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




Prologue: the industrial revolution - identity and beginning



The Industrial Economy is Born: 1700 to the Early Nineteenth Century



Gregory King's England



The state, rural society and the land



Economic policy, trade and transport



Industrial growth and finance



The human dimension



Economic fluctuations



The Evolving Industrial Economy: to 19148


The century ahead - changing structure of the British economy



Occupational structure and industrial organization in the mid-nineteenth century



Railways



The free trade system and capital exports



Agriculture, 1815-1914



The evolution of banking and the money market, 1825-1914



The organization of labour and standards of living



Industrial maturity and deceleration



Epilogue: the inter-war years