Author: M. C. ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Railways in the Victorian Economy
Author: M. C. ReedRailways and the Victorian Imagination
Author: Michael J. FreemanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300079708
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain
New Perspectives on the Late Victorian Economy
Author: James Foreman-PeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521890854
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The book focuses upon three central themes: industrial organisation and technology, wages and living standards, and the monetary system. These are at the heart of discussions of productivity growth, the standard of living, well-being and poverty; the criteria by which the Victorian economic system should ultimately be judged.
Railways in the Victorian Economy
Author: M. C. ReedThe Victorian Economy
Author: Francois CrouzetPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136595678
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Britain’s role in the mid-nineteenth century as the world’s greatest economic power was an extraordinary phenomenon, foreshadowed in the Industrial Revolution of the century before and originating from a unique combination of global and indigenous factors. In this study François Crouzet analyses the growth and – in late Victorian Britain – decline of the nation’s economy, drawing on an immense amount of quantitative data to examine and explain its development. The book begins with a macroeconomic survey of the period, reviewing broad fluctuations in economic growth and the question of the ‘mid-Victorian boom’, structural changes in the balance of the economy, demographic movements, capital formation and the influence of Free Trade. Professor Crouzet then goes on to look in detail at the different sectors of the economy, assessing the effects of the relative decline of agriculture against industry, the growth of the tertiary sector, the rise of new industries such as armaments and the transport revolution. His final chapter analyses the reality of and reasons for Britain’s subsequent decline as a world economic superpower. This study, first published in 1982, draws together a wide range of material and provides an invaluable framework for the understanding of a complex and richly-documented period.
The World's First Railway System
Author: Mark CassonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199213976
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done.
The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities
Author: John R. KellettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135680876
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The arrival of the railway was one of the most far reaching events in the history of the Victorian city. The present study, based upon detailed case histories of Britain's five largest cities (London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool), shows how the railways gave Victorian cities their compact shape, influenced topography and character of their central districts, and determines the nature of suburban expansion. This book was first published in 1969.
Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Albert SchramPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
An account of the role of railways in Italian political and economic life during the process of unification.
Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830-1914
Author: Patrick O'BrienPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134906324X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Dynamics of Victorian Business
Author: Roy ChurchPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136596305
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First Published in 2005. This volume looks at the problems and perspectives of Victorian Business in the 1870s.The purpose of this collection of essays is to explore further that part of the thesis, tentatively advanced in interrogative mode in 1975, concerning the course of industrial development during the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century.