Author: Hoppit, Julian & Wrigley, E.A.; editors:
Title: The Industrial Revolution in Britain, I [The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 2]
Description: Oxford / Cambridge, Blackwell, (1994). orig.cloth. 25x17cm, xl,522 pp, Series: Economic History Society, The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 2.. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 19 papers concerning Definitions, Phasing, Scale, Nature; Capital ; Credit; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Taxation; Labour; Demography; Labour Supply; Standard of Living; Factory Discipline; Social Structure. Includes: P.J. Cain & A.G. Hopkins "Gentlemanly Capitalism & British Expansion Overseas: The Old Colonial System, 1688-1850"; D. Cannadine "The Present in the Past in the English Industrial Revolution, 1880-1980"; D.C. Coleman "Industrial Growth & Industrial Revolutions"; N.F.R. Crafts " British Economic Growth, 1700-183 1: A Review of the Evidence"; F. Crouzet "Capital Formation in the Industrial Revolution"; P,. Deane "The Implications of Early National Income Estimates for the Measurement of Long-term Economic Growth in the United Kingdom"; H. Heaton "Industrial Revolution"; C.H. Feinstein " Capital Accumulation & the Industrial Revolution"; P. Mathias & P.K. O' Brien "Taxation in Britain & France, 1715-1810"; M.M. Postan "Recent Trends in the Accumulation of Capital"; E.B. Schumpeter "English Prices & Public Finance, 1660-1822"; C. Wilson "The Entrepreneur in the Industrial Revolution in Britain"; J.D. Chambers " Enclosure & Labour Supply in the Industrial Revolution"; J.A. Goldstone " The Demographic Revolution in England: A Re-Examination"; R.M. Hartwell " The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800-1850"; E.J. Hobsbawm "The British Standard of Living, 1790 -1850"; etc.

Keywords: British Economic History, Great Britain, Industrial, Revolution, Industrialization, Economics Economic, Historiography, Capital Credit, Labour Demography