International Trade and British Economic Growth: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day / Edition 1

by Peter Mathias, John Davis

Overview

This book explores the relationship between international trade and domestic economic growth in Britain since the eighteenth century. It was during this time that Britain enjoyed first a dominant role in world trade and then, from the outbreak of the First World War, saw its economic strength eclipsed by other emerging international powers. The essays here focus on two central concerns in the history of British economic development in the period; was overseas and colonial trade in the eighteenth century the principal motor of British industrial development? Has the structure of Britain's overseas trade in the twentieth century been one of the factors contributing to the "decline of the British industrial economy"?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631181163
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/07/1997
Series:	Nature of Industrialization , #5
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Peter Mathis is former Master of Downing College, Cambridge and Chichele Professor of Economic History in Oxford.

John A. Davis holds the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History at the University of Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

1. Atlantic Trade and British Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century: Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University College).

2. British Trade and European Economic Development 1750-1850: Sidney Pollard (University of Sheffield and Bielefeld).

3. Nineteenth Century Ocean Trade and Transport: Peter Davies (University of Liverpool).

4. Exports and British Economic Growth (1850-1914): Charles Fainstein (All Souls College, Oxford).

5. Trade Policy and Growth: Some European Experiences (1850-1940): Forrest Capie (City University Business School).

6. British Trade with Latin America (1870-1950): Rory Miller (University of Liverpool).

7. Imperial Power and Foreign Trade: Britain and India (1900-1970): B. R. Tomlinson (University of Strathclyde).

Notes and Bibliographies.

Index.

List of Contributors.

Editorial Reviews

Seven essays investigate whether overseas and colonial trade in the 18th century was the principal motor of British industrial development, and whether the structure of Britain's overseas trade in the 20th century has been one of the factors contributing to the decline of the domestic industrial economy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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