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Studies in capital formation in Great Britain : 1750-1920 / edited by C.H. Feinstein and Sidney Pollard with contributions by John Butt ... [and others].
LIBRA HC260.S3 S78 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saving and investment--Great Britain--History.
- Saving and investment.
- Capital--Great Britain--History.
- Capital.
- Industries.
- History.
- Great Britain--Industries--History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xvii unnumbered pages 477 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Clarendon Press, [1988]
- Summary:
- Based largely on archival and other primary sources, this collection of essays attempts to understand Britain's gain in--and subsequent loss of--economic preeminence during the industrial revolution, uncovering new statistical information on areas ranging from agriculture, mining, transportation, and insurance, to textiles, corn milling, steam power, and land.
- Contents:
- Part I Sectoral Studies
- 1. Agriculture, 1770-1860 / B. A. Holderness 9
- 2. Coal Mining, 1750-1850 / Sidney Pollard 35
- 3. The Iron Industry, 1750-1850 / R. S. W. Davies, Sidney Pollard 73
- 4. The Cotton Industry, 1775-1856 / Stanley Chapman, John Butt 105
- 5. The Wool Textile Industry, 1780-1850 / D. T. Jenkins 126
- 6. The Corn Milling Industry, 1750-1820 / John Orbell 141
- 7. Fixed Capital Formation in Steam Power, 1775-1825 A Case Study of the Boulton and Watt Engine / Jennifer Tann 164
- 8. Roads and Waterways, 1750-1850 / John Ginarlis, Sidney Pollard 182
- 9. The Insurance Policies / Sidney Pollard 225
- Part II National Statistics, 1760-1920: Sources and Methods of Estimation for Domestic Reproducible Fixed Assets, Stocks and Works in Progress, Overseas Assets, and Land / Charles H. Feinstein
- 10. Agriculture 267
- 11. Mining and Quarrying 281
- 12. Manufacturing 286
- 13. Gas, Water, and Electricity Supply Undertakings 302
- 14. Distribution and Other Services 307
- 15. Transport and Communications 312
- 16. Public and Social Services 355
- 17. Residential Dwellings 379
- 18. Stocks and Work in Progress, Overseas Assets, and Land 391
- A. Indices of Rent 405
- B. Gross Annual Value of Dwellings and of Industrial and Commercial Buildings 411
- C. Relationship between the Gross Stock of Dwellings and the Gross Annual Value Assesed to Tax 420.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 019828408X :
- OCLC:
- 16005405
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