The First Industrial Nation: Economic History of Britain, 1700-1914 - Softcover

Mathias, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041502756X ISBN 13: 9780415027564

Publisher: Routledge, 1983

Synopsis

The First Industrial Nation is firmly established as the core textbook of early modern and modern British economic history. It plots the course and explains the process of industrial development in Britain after 1700. Drawing on a wealth of comparative material it shows:

* how Britian became the world's greatest industrial power
* why competitive pressures of industrialisation brought unfamiliar difficulties
* how all the main economic sectors were related.

And Peter Mathias discusses:

* the response and challenge of the international economy
* Britain's development from first industrial nation to first `mature' economy
* the significance of this transformation in a comparative study of twentieth-century economic development.

While the text does not demand economic and econometric expertise, it analyses the economic and social dimensions of change in unusual depth, and will continue its reign as a key text in the study of British history.

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Review

'Remains the finest textbook of British economic history between 1700 and 1914 available to sixth-form and undergraduate students.' - Teaching History

'It should be made available to every sixth-form pupil taking an Advanced level course in the subject.' - Economics

Synopsis

The First Industrial Nation plots the course and explains the process of industrial development in Britain in the generations after 1700, and employs a wide range of comparisons to describe the rhythm of change during the 150 years that saw Britain become the world's greatest industrial power. From 1850, the growing competitive pressures of an industrializing world brought difficulties of an unfamiliar kind, and the author discusses the relationships of all the main economic sectors during this long sequence of challenge and response in the international economy: from being the first industrial nation to appear in the world, Britain became its first mature' economy. While the text does not demand economic and econometric expertise, it analyses the economic and social dimensions of change in all their complexity and shows how the history of that transformation is of particular significance in the comparative study of economic development in the twentieth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041502756X
• ISBN 13: 9780415027564
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 491