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Wealth and Welfare

An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1851-1951
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
674 Seiten
Englisch
OUP Oxforderschienen am26.04.2007
Provides a clear view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951. This book stresses modernity and the growth of various patterns of consumption in areas such as the service sector and the leisure industry.mehr
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TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
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KlappentextProvides a clear view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951. This book stresses modernity and the growth of various patterns of consumption in areas such as the service sector and the leisure industry.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-873209-9
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2007
Erscheinungsdatum26.04.2007
Seiten674 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 36 mm
Gewicht1007 g
Artikel-Nr.14109273
Rubriken
GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction ; PART I ; The Anatomy of the British Economy ; 2. Aristocrats, agriculture and the land ; 3. Industrialists and the urban economy ; 4. The service economy ; 5. The growth of the British economy ; PART II ; Globalization and Deglobalization ; 6. Free trade and protectionism ; 7. Capital exports ; 8. The rise and demise of the gold standard ; 9. Rebuilding the international economic order? ; PART III ; Poverty, Prosperity and Population ; 10. Births and marriages ; 11. Deaths and disease ; 12. Rich and poor ; 13. Cultures of consumption ; PART IV ; Public Policy and the State ; 14. Taxing and spending ; 15. Education ; 16. From the poor law to the Liberal social reforms ; 17. War, reconstruction and depression ; 18. Building a new Jerusalemmehr

Autor

Martin Daunton is Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and President of the Royal Historical Society. He was formerly Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has written extensively on British history since 1700, especially on urban history and economic and social policy, and is the author of Progress and Poverty, which covers the period from 1700 to 1851 and is also published by Oxford University Press.