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,
“... Rubinstein needs strong evidence to deny that Britain’s was ‘the first industrial economy’ (Peter Mathias) or that there was a ‘transformation of the British economy to an industry state’ (Phyllis Deane). The evidence he relies on comes from income-tax returns: ‘The totals for London and the Home Counties may be taken as convenient shorthand or ... ”