Amazon.com description: Product Description: A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialisation. A team of forty leading historians and economists examine the foundational importance of economic life in modern Britain as well as the close interconnections between economic, social, political and cultural change. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. Volume One, on 1700-1870, examines industrialisation's causes and consequences; issues of globalisation, convergence and divergence; and the role of institutions, the state, science and technology. Volume Two tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Throughout the volumes British experience is set within an international context and its performance benchmarked against its global competitors.