Previous textbooks on 18th and 19th century Britain have tended to be written either from a social and political standpoint, or about economics in the abstract, as if the history could be reduced to statistical analysis. The aim of this book is to incorporate the revisionist work on British
economic growth, which deals impersonally in broad national aggregates, with the work of social and political historians. It stresses the connections between the economy and debates over public policy, and examines the regional variations in agriculture and industry, with particular attention to the
differences between England and Scotland. Much revisionist work concerns the operation of assumed national markets; the aim of the book is to show how these markets were formed, and how a national economy was created. The British economy underwent major strucrual change over the period from 1700 to
1850, as population moved from agriculture and rural life to industry and towns.
Martin Danton gives a clear and balanced picture of the continuity and change in the early development of the world's first industrial nation. His book will become prescribed reading for all students of 18th and 19th century British history, and for economists studying the industrial
revolution.
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.
Show morePrevious textbooks on 18th and 19th century Britain have tended to be written either from a social and political standpoint, or about economics in the abstract, as if the history could be reduced to statistical analysis. The aim of this book is to incorporate the revisionist work on British
economic growth, which deals impersonally in broad national aggregates, with the work of social and political historians. It stresses the connections between the economy and debates over public policy, and examines the regional variations in agriculture and industry, with particular attention to the
differences between England and Scotland. Much revisionist work concerns the operation of assumed national markets; the aim of the book is to show how these markets were formed, and how a national economy was created. The British economy underwent major strucrual change over the period from 1700 to
1850, as population moved from agriculture and rural life to industry and towns.
Martin Danton gives a clear and balanced picture of the continuity and change in the early development of the world's first industrial nation. His book will become prescribed reading for all students of 18th and 19th century British history, and for economists studying the industrial
revolution.
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.
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Amongst Daunton's previous publications are: Housing the Workers: A Comparative Perspective 1850-1914 (editor, Leciester UP, 1989), A Property-owning Democracy? Housing in Britain (Faber, 1987), House and Home in Victorian City, 1850-1914 (Edward Arnold, 1984), and Councillors and Tenants (Leicester UP, 1983)
Superb and wide-ranging survey of a fast changing field. Dr C. J.
Schmitz, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St. Andrew's
`a timely and largely successful attempt to rehumanize modern
British economic history by reintegrating it with its social and
political cousins...Daunton's integrative approach is most
valuable...style is lucid and lively, and his explanations of even
the most arcane institutions and concepts are models of
clarity...Postgraduates and specialists should relish both its
ambitious scope and its fine tuning.'
Economic History Review
`This is a lot of book for the money. Well over 600 pages for less
than £15 is good value. It is not only volume that one is
purchasing but also a quality product. It combines an excellent
synthesis of the most recent work on the classic industrial
revolution period with the author's own perceptive insights and
interconnections...Each chapter is simply and clearly written,
making it very accessible to students as well as more widely read
scholars,
and yet each contains a sophisticated analysis drawing on economic
concepts and terms and spelling out mechanisms by which economic
relationships occured. Daunton is excellent at explaining
complicated
issues...the book is greatly to be welcomed. It will be a great
boon to students and a good read for scholars. I look forward to
volume II'
Business History
`Daunton has written a work of grand synthesis and sustained
argument, which will be read and reread by professionals and
students alike. The book is well produced, with convenient notes
and excellent bibliographies, and is a signal achievement not least
because its author has rescued so many important findings from
highly technical studies and made them part of a story told in
lucid, attractive prose. Both admirers and critics will want a
sequel.'
G.F. Steckley, Knox College, Choice, March 1996 Vol.33 No.7
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