An Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 3
Machines and National Rivalries (1887–1914) with an Epilogue (1914–1929)

It is the beginning of what we have never had before, a history of the English people.

John Clapham (Author)

9780521101080, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 February 2009

596 pages
22.9 x 3.4 x 15.2 cm, 0.86 kg

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. With this third volume, Professor Clapham completes the work, bringing the story down to 1929. Particular topics dealt with include the place and development of agriculture in the industrial state; rapid changes and new growths in industry; the spread of the ideas of limited liability; amalgamation and co-operation; changes in commercial organisation; communications, including road transport, air development, the Post Office and wireless; and the economic activities of the state.

Book IV. Machines and National Rivalries
1. The Industrial State, its Neighbours and Vicissitudes, 1887–1914
2. Agriculture in the Industrial State
3. The Course of Industrial Change
4. Limited Liability, Joint-stock Amalgamation and Co-operation
5. Commercial and Industrial Organisation
6. Communications
7. The Economic Activities of the State
8. Life and Labour in Industrial Britain
Epilogue
Index
Diagrams.

Subject Areas: History [HB]