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Tables of Contents for The First Industrial Nation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
x
List of tables
xi
Introduction
xiii
Preface to the first edition
xvii
Preface to the second edition
xix
Acknowledgements
xxi
Prologue: the industrial revolution - identity and beginning
1
20
PART I THE INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY IS BORN: 1700 TO THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
21
198
Gregory King's England - the pre-industrial economy
23
8
The state, rural society and the land
31
45
The state and economic development in Britain, 1750-1850
31
16
Landownership and change in rural society
47
12
Agricultural change
59
17
Economic policy, trade and transport
76
34
The regulation of foreign trade and shipping
76
8
The couuse of foreign trade
84
13
Inland transport in the industrial revolution
97
13
Industrial growth and finance
110
56
Industrial organization and change
110
11
Industry and innovation
121
9
Capital accumulation
130
6
The entrepreneurs
136
12
Banking and investment
148
18
The human dimension
166
40
Population
166
13
Conditions of work and social attitudes
179
12
Standards of living
191
15
Economic fluctuations
206
13
PART II THE EVOLVING INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY: TO 1914
219
194
The century ahead - changing structure of the British economy
221
16
Occupational structure and industrial organization in the mid-nineteenth century
237
15
Railways
252
14
The free trade system and capital exports
266
42
The coming of free trade: ideas and policy
266
11
Foreign trade, shipping and the balance of payments
277
16
The export of capital
293
15
Agriculture, 1815-1914
308
13
The evolution of banking and the money market, 1825-1914
321
11
The organization of labour and standards of living
332
19
Labour organization
332
11
Standards of life, 1850-1914
343
8
Industrial maturity and deceleration
351
47
Changes in the firm
351
10
The Great Depression, 1873-96
361
8
Economic growth and industrial retardation, 1870-1914
369
29
Epilogue: the inter-war years
398
15
Appendix
413
49
Population and urbanization
415
5
Prices
420
3
National income
423
4
Public revenue
427
3
Trade and the balance of payments
430
8
Agriculture
438
7
Production and industry
445
14
Finance
459
3
Index
462