A Concise Economic History of Britain ...
Author: Sir John Harold Clapham
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Published: 1951
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Author: Sir John Harold Clapham
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Published: 1951
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rondo E. Cameron
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780195074451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic book offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present, and explores the disparity of wealth among nations. Now in its fourth edition, A Concise Economic History of the World includes expanded coverage of recent developments in the European Union, transition economies, and East Asia.
Author: William Henry Bassano Court
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1954-01-02
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521092173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Court investigates the economic life of Britain between 1750 and the onset of war in 1939.
Author: Rondo E. Cameron
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic book offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present, and explores the disparity of wealth among nations. Now in its fourth edition, A Concise Economic History of the World includes expanded coverage of recent developments in the European Union, transition economies, and East Asia.
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Publisher: CUP Archive
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Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregory Clark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008-12-29
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1400827817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.
Author: W. A. Speck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-04-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780521367028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a concise, illustrated history of Great Britain over the past three centuries, from its formation as a sovereign state between the Union of England and Scotland in 1707 to its partial loss of sovereignty in the accession to the European Community, confirmed in the referendum result of 1975. Professor Speck emphasises political and social trends. In particular he argues that conservative politics prevailed largely in a deeply conservative society, and that reactionary causes generally obtained more support than radical campaigns. The book is highly illustrated with pictures and photographs and contains a bibliography and other features of use to students and general readers.
Author: Robert C. Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0199596654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTogether these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.
Author: Joel Mokyr
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300124552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In a vigorous discussion, which goes beyond the standard explanations that credit geographical factors, the role of markets, politics and society, Mokyr argues that the bases of the emergence of modern economic growth in Britain are to be found in what key players knew and believed, and how those convictions affected their economic behaviour. The belief in progress, coupled with the strategies to bring it about led Britain, and eventually most of the western world, into the modern era." "With a remarkably wide range of reference, and covering sectors of the British economy often neglected, this masterful book both synthesizes existing scholarship and provides a wholly new perspective for understanding Britain's economic development in the ageof the Industrial Revolution." --Book Jacket.
Author: Martin Pugh
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780333764534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn "introduction to the fundamental social, political and economic changes that took place in Great Britain from the late eighteenth century to the present day."--Cover.