{"product_id":"an-economic-history-of-modern-britain-volume-2-free-trade-and-steel-1850-1886-paperback-9780521101004","title":"An Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2; Free Trade and Steel 1850–1886 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521101004","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFree Trade and Steel 1850–1886\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is the beginning of what we have never had before, a history of the English people.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Clapham (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521101004, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 February 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e572 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 3.2 x 15.2 cm, 0.83 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBook III: Free Trade and Steel\u003cbr\u003e 1. Britain and the Nations 1848–53\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Industrial Field in 1851\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Course of Industrial Change\u003cbr\u003e 4. The development of Industrial Organisation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Communications\u003cbr\u003e 6. Overseas trade and commercial policy\u003cbr\u003e 7. Agriculture\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Organisation of Commerce\u003cbr\u003e 9. Money, Prices, Banking and Investment\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Economic Activities of the State\u003cbr\u003e 11. Life and Labour in Industrial Britain\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Face of the Country, 1886–7\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Plates and Diagrams.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economics%20%5BKC%5D%22\"\u003eKC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46297210388760,"sku":"9780521101004","price":40.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/an-economic-history-of-modern-britain-volume-2-free-trade-and-steel-1850-1886-paperback-9780521101004","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}