Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day
A masterly survey of the major economic developments and changes of the last two hundred years, sharply and ironically observed, and elegantly written.  --GuardianAn original and masterly reinterpretation of Western economic (not to speak of social and political) history, [from] by far the most gifted economic historian now writing.  --The Listener--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.