The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870
Author: M.W. Kirby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1136616748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book was first published in 1981.
Author: M.W. Kirby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1136616748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book was first published in 1981.
Author: Michael Dintenfass
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-02-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1134937474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Michael Dintenfass provides a challenging account of Britain's economic performance since 1870. He combines a succinct, clearly-written survey of recent scholarly work in British economic and business history with an original interpretive alternative to the institutionalized accounts of Britain's relative decline. Dintenfass addresses both specifically economic questions and socio-historical questions to place Britain's economic history in its broadest context.
Author: Michael Sanderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-04-22
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780521588423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the 1870s the British economy has steadily declined from its position as the 'workshop of the world' to that of a low-ranking European power. Michael Sanderson examines the question of how far defects in education and training have contributed to this economic decline. By looking at issues such as literacy, the quality of scientific and technical training, the supposed anti-industrial bias of public schools and the older universities, the neglect of vocational and technical training and the neglect of the non-academic teenager, Michael Sanderson demonstrates that education was far from the sole cause of economic decline, but that its deficiencies have certainly played a part. This book offers an accessible and concise analysis of a topic of current importance, interest and debate and will be of interest to students and teachers of the history of education and its impact on British economic development in the twentieth century.
Author: Nadine Röpke
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2006-07-10
Total Pages: 12
ISBN-13: 3638519015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essay from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Birmingham (Department of History), course: The History of Modern Britain, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: At the end of the 19thcentury Great Britain experienced an economic decline, the reasons for which are still controversially discussed among historians. While some stress the changes in the world economy due to the spread of industrialization in the 19th century, others hold the view that serious failings within the domestic economy are the major causes for Britain’s downfall. After a short description of the degree of Britain’s decline before 1914, some of the major reasons for Britain’s relative economic decline will be analyzed and compared. The aim of this paper will be to evaluate the severity of external changes that the British had no control of as well as internal failings within the British economy that contributed to Britain’s relative economic decline. Writing about Britain’s economic decline at the end of the 19thCentury, it is first of all necessary to define in how far one can speak of a ‘decline’. Most historians point out that Britain’s economic decline is only a relative one. They argue that in comparison to Britain’s earlier growth or in relation to the growth of other advanced countries, like e.g. the USA or Germany, one can realize a decline in the economic performance of Great Britain but that in general there was no decline in the last third of the 19thcentury. Alford renders it more precisely by saying that: “British enterprise, it will be argued, did not decline during this period: it remained remarkably constant and inflexible.” In fact Britain’s GDP was still rising between 1870 and 1890 but, like mentioned before; the annual rate of growth was much slower. According to Crouzet Britain achieved a growth rate of 3.1 per cent from 1811 to 1877, while it fell to only 1.6 per cent between 1877 and 1913. That causes historians to differ in terms of the beginning of the decline. Most historians refer to the year 1873 when they talk about the beginning of Britain’s decline while others argue that Britain achieved its most rapid growth in industrial production in the 1820s and 1830s and that the time of Victoria’s accession could therefore be regarded as the true beginning of the relative economic decline. Nevertheless, in this paper the time around 1870 will be regarded as the beginning of Britain’s economic decline since it was between 1870 and 1913 that Britain’s share of the total world industrial production fell from 31.8 per cent to 14 per cent. [...]
Author: P. F. Clarke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-12-11
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521563178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 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.
Author: Michael Dintenfass
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1134692625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book sets out the present state of the discussion of the decline in British industry and introduces new directions in which the debate is now proceeding.
Author: Roderick Floud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-09
Total Pages: 607
ISBN-13: 1107038464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.
Author: Sidney Pollard
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780713165913
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jim Tomlinson
Publisher: London ; New York : Methuen
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Broadberry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-22
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 1107070783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.