The political economy of British historical experience, 1688-1914
By: edited by Donald Winch & Patrick K. O'Brien.
Contributors: Winch, Donald.; O'Brien, Patrick Karl.
Series: [British Academy centenary monographs]
Publisher: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series statement on jacket.
Table of contents: title: The English Kopf / Emma Rothschild; title: National bankruptcy and social revolution : European observers on Britain, 1831-1844 / Gareth Stedman Jones; title: "A nearly related people" : German views of the British labour market, 1870-1900 / James Thompson; title: Changing perceptions of land tenures in Britain, 1750-1914 / F.M.L. Thompson; title: The peculiarities of Irish land tenure, 1800-1914 : from agent of impoverishment to agent of pacification / Peter Gray; title: Mercantilism and the British empire, 1688-1815 / Kenneth Morgan; title: Restoring free trade : the British experience, 1776-1873 / Anthony Howe; title: National identity and consumer politics : free trade and tariff reform / Frank Trentmann; title: Fiscal exceptionalism : Great Britain and its European rivals from Civil War to triumph at Trafalgar and Waterloo / Patrick O'Brian; title: Checking the Leviathan, 1688-1832 / Julian Hoppit; title: The emergence of the Bank of England as a mature central bank / Forrest Capie; title: Trusting Leviathan : the politics of taxation, 1815-1914 / Martin Daunton; title: From cheap government to efficient government : the political economy of public expenditure in the United Kingdom, 1832-1914 / G.C. Peden; title: The distinctiveness of the English poor laws, 1750-1850 / Joanna Innes; title: From poor law to welfare state? : a European perspective / Jose Harris.