Author: Alfred PLUMMER (B. Litt., M.Sc. (Econ.))Publisher:
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Languages : en
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New British Industries in the Twentieth Century. A Survey of Development and Structure
Author: Alfred PLUMMER (B. Litt., M.Sc. (Econ.))Publisher:
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Languages : en
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New British industry in the twentieth century
Author: Alfred PlummerNew British Industries in the Twentieth Century
Author: Alfred PlummerPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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London in the Twentieth Century
Author: Jerry WhitePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407013076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
Britain's Place in the World
Author: George BrennanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134771150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Britain's Place in the World examines the establishment and effectiveness of import controls, particularly quotas. Placing quotas back in the centre of British history, Milward and Brennan make some radical claims for Britain's economic performance in a global context. Looking into a wide variety of industries from motorcars to typewriters, raw chemicals to food produce, they examine the intended and actual obstruction to imported goods represented by quotas, and the political and financial ramifications beyond the statistics. This is the fourth book to be published in the Routledge Explorations in Economic History series.
Mod Brit:An Econ & Soc Hist
Author: John IrwinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134847386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The British Economy in the Twentieth Century
Author: Alan BoothPublisher: Red Globe Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000. Manufacturing is inevitably the centre of this failure: British industrial managers cannot organise the proverbial 'knees-up' in a brewery; British workers are idle and greedy; its financial system is uniquely geared to the short term interests of the City rather than of manufacturing; its economic policies areperverse for industry; and its culture is fundamentally anti-industrial. There is a grain of truth in each of these statements, but only a grain. In this book, Alan Booth notes that Britain's living standards have definitely been overtaken, but evidence that Britain has fallen continuously further and further behindits major competitors is thin indeed. Although British manufacturing has been much criticised, it has performed comparatively better than the service sector. The British Economy in the Twentieth Century combines narrative with a conceptual and analytic approach to review British economic performance during the twentieth century in a controlled comparative framework. It looks at key themes, including economic growth and welfare, the working of the labour market, and the performance of entrepreneurs and managers. Alan Booth argues that a careful, balanced assessment (which must embrace the whole century rather than simply the post-war years) does not support the loud and persistent case for systematic failure in British management, labour, institutions, culture and economic policy. Relative decline has been much more modest, patchy and inevitable than commonly believed.
The Taste of Empire
Author: Lizzie CollinghamPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. In The Taste of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.
International Trade and British Economic Growth
Author: Peter MathiasPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631181163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This book explores the relationship between international trade and domestic economic growth in Britain since the eighteenth century. It was during this time that Britain enjoyed first a dominant role in world trade and then, from the outbreak of the First World War, saw its economic strength eclipsed by other emerging international powers. The essays here focus on two central concerns in the history of British economic development in the period; was overseas and colonial trade in the eighteenth century the principal motor of British industrial development? Has the structure of Britain's overseas trade in the twentieth century been one of the factors contributing to the "decline of the British industrial economy"?
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