{"product_id":"understanding-decline-perceptions-and-realities-of-british-economic-performance-paperback-9780521036849","title":"Understanding Decline; Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521036849","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnderstanding Decline\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePerceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of essays which emphasises the centrality of Britain's decline over two centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Clarke (Edited by), Clive Trebilcock (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521036849, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 June 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm, 0.507 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...pushes into the undergrowth of long-running debates.\"    David J. Jeremy, Business History Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe theme of British economic decline is inescapable in contemporary debates about Britain's economic performance and sense of national identity. Understanding Decline is a serious contribution to an important argument, approached in a way that is accessible not only to the specialist academic market but to students of economics, history and politics. Barry Supple, to whom the volume is dedicated, when Professor of Economic History at Cambridge was concerned with various aspects of this historical problem. Indeed, his 1993 Presidential Address to the Economic History Society, 'Fear of failing', already a classic, is reprinted here as a highly effective keynote essay. Other essays pick up this theme in diverse but essentially unified ways, seeking to assess British economic performance in different ways over the past two centuries. They include case-studies through which the reality of decline can be explored, while differing perceptions of decline are examined in a number of essays dealing with ideas and policy issues.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrontispiece Barry Supple\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e Note on references\u003cbr\u003e Preface Peter Clarke and Clive Trebilcock\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: national performance in a personal perspective Barry Supple\u003cbr\u003e 1. Fear of failing: economic history and the decline of Britain Barry Supple\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'A great deal of ruin in a nation' Donald Winch\u003cbr\u003e 3. The security of the realm and the growth of the economy, 1688–1914 Patrick K. O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e 4. British economic decline and human resources Simon Szreter\u003cbr\u003e 5. The myth of decline: an urban perspective Jay Winter\u003cbr\u003e 6. Phoenix: financial services, insurance and economic revival between the wars Clive Trebilcock\u003cbr\u003e 7. Keynes, New Jerusalem, and British decline Peter Clarke\u003cbr\u003e 8. Social policy, saving, and sound money: budgeting for the New Jerusalem in the Second World War Jose Harris\u003cbr\u003e 9. 1945–1951: years of recovery or a stage in economic decline? Bernard Alford\u003cbr\u003e 10. The end of empire and the golden age Charles H. Feinstein\u003cbr\u003e 11. Macmillan's audit of empire, 1957 Tony Hopkins\u003cbr\u003e  12. Apocalypse when? British politicians and British 'decline' in the twentieth century David Cannadine\u003cbr\u003e 13. Measuring economic decline Peter Temin\u003cbr\u003e Publications by Barry Supple\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Postwar%2020th%20century%20history,%20from%20c%201945%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW3%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW3\u003c\/a\u003e], British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\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":45909232451864,"sku":"9780521036849","price":35.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521036849i_90d8370d-9414-4ebc-a43f-e2e61bbf526f.jpg?v=1694968396","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/understanding-decline-perceptions-and-realities-of-british-economic-performance-paperback-9780521036849","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}