Napoleon was wrong
Ian Gilmour, 24 June 1993
Capitalism, Culture and Decline in Britain 1750-1990
by W.D. Rubinstein.
Routledge, 182 pp., £25, April 1993,0 415 03718 2 Show More
by W.D. Rubinstein.
Routledge, 182 pp., £25, April 1993,
British Multinational Banking
by Geoffrey Jones.
Oxford, 511 pp., £48, March 1993,0 19 820273 3 Show More
by Geoffrey Jones.
Oxford, 511 pp., £48, March 1993,
Going for Broke: How Banking Mismanagement in the Eighties Lost Thousands of Billions of Pounds
by Russell Taylor.
Simon and Schuster, 384 pp., £17.50, April 1993,0 671 71128 8 Show More
by Russell Taylor.
Simon and Schuster, 384 pp., £17.50, April 1993,
“... middle-class income. After a decline in the early Victorian age he finds that this percentage rose again in the later Victorian and Edwardian ages and in 1914 was virtually as high as it had been at the time of Waterloo. In contrast the share of Lancashire and Yorkshire rose from just under 10 per cent of the national ... ”