Sidney Pollard has provided a concise survey of economic issues for students of the European community. Going back to 1815, he links the progress of industrialisation in Europe to the relative ease with which ideas, men and capital were able to cross national frontiers. European frontiers make little economic sense and frequently cut across vital natural links. Professor Pollard shows how open frontiers speeded progress, in the particular circumstances of the spread of industrialisation from Britain to Western Europe and then to the rest of the continent, adn opened up new markets and opportunities of learning and technology transfer. Closed frontiers and the national selfishness of economic warfare led in contrast to stagnation, hostility and at times to all-out war. This classic study was first published in 1981.

Product Description: Originally published in 1982. This book examines the problem and looks at the causes of the repeated crises which the country has undergone since the war. The basic cause is stated to be the failure to invest in the modernisation of the British capital equipment and the consequent loss of competitive power; and this failure, in turn, is seen to be the result of Government policies which, for the sake of a variety of short-term aims, sacrificed the future by deliberately inhibiting investment...read more

Product Description: These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate and broken down into main sectors...read more

In The International Economy Since 1945, Sidney Pollard describes the most important global developments in economics during the last half century. In this comprehensive history the author covers all geographical regions and considers the effects of the major countries on each other. The International Economy Since 1945 analyses institutional issues, such as monetary policy or the multinational company, as well as worldwide issues. The author considers the impact of policies on economic life and includes discussion of: * the threat to the environment caused by economic change* advances in technology as they relate to growth* fluctuations in standards of living in all parts of the world* policies pursued and how they influence growth* reactions of other nations to the plight of the Third World* the Communist and Far Eastern economies* the impact of World War II on the global economy. The International Economy Since 1945 debates the key issues of current global and national policy-making and the effects of greater economic integration on inflation and employment.

Product Description: This title considers the main similarities and differences in the industrialization processes of the major economies.

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Product Description: This volume focuses on labour history in Britain, but brings in comparative material on the Continent, in particular inter-war Germany. Special attention is given to wages and living and working conditions in the 19th century, to Robert Owen and Co-operation, and to the modern trade union movement and its attempts to keep up the interests of its members in the fluctuating conditions of the late 19th and earlier 20th centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The momentum of the British industrial revolution arose mostly in regions poorly endowed by nature, badly located and considered backward and poor by contemporaries. Pollard examines the influence of geography upon the environment, asking why people living in marginal areas (mountains, forests, marshes) have taken the lead in key phases of European progress, such as in the Dutch Golden Age...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This survey of Britain's economic history in the 20th century has been extended to bring the account up to the end of 1990, offering an overview of the Thatcher years and an examination of the government's radical departures in economic policy during the years 1979-1990...read more

Product Description: An attempt to discover whether there was a decline in the rate of growth in the British economy between 1870 and 1914 and, if so, in what sense that decline might be said to have occurred. The book offers evidence for a revision of current ideas, together with interpretations of its own...read more

Discusses changes in the economic structure during the past century, concentrating on the increase of poverty and the distribution of wealth

Product Description: The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge Economic History of Europe is the third of a group of three that cover the economic history of the western world during and since the Industrial Revolution. The main theme of this volume is the role played in the growth of industrial economies by the development of economic and social policies...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Peaceful Conquest The Industrialization of Europe 1760-1970

Product Description: Book by Pollard, Sidney, Robertson, Paul

Product Description: Why has Robert Owen continued to occupy the attention of historians in the twentieth century? What changing significance has been seen in his work? What was his relationship with the great social and political movements of his age? To what extent was the Owenite 'message' of importance outside Great Britain? These and other questions are taken up in this study...read more