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Overseas Trade and Empire, 1700-1820

Category: Grain Studies
Type: in Collection
Book Title: The Economic History of Britain Since 1700
Author: Thomas, R. P. and McCloskey, D. N.
Editor: Floud, Roderick and McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Pages: 87--102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521425216
Call number: 81/29956-7
Library catalog: British Library
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/graham/overseas.pdf
Language: en
Tags: Business & Economics / Economic History     

Abstract:

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.



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