Thoughts on the New Economic History
David Cannadine, 15 April 1982
The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. 1: 1700-1860
edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey.
Cambridge, 323 pp., £25, October 1981,0 521 23166 3 Show More
edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey.
Cambridge, 323 pp., £25, October 1981,
The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. II: 1860 to the 1970s
edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey.
Cambridge, 485 pp., £30, October 1981,0 521 23167 1 Show More
edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey.
Cambridge, 485 pp., £30, October 1981,
The Population History of England 1541-1871: A Reconstruction
by E.A. Wrigley.
Edward Arnold, 779 pp., £45, October 1982,0 7131 6264 3 Show More
by E.A. Wrigley.
Edward Arnold, 779 pp., £45, October 1982,
The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870
by M.W. Kirby.
Allen and Unwin, 211 pp., £15, June 1981,0 04 942169 7 Show More
by M.W. Kirby.
Allen and Unwin, 211 pp., £15, June 1981,
The Coming of the Mass Market 1850-1914
by Hamish Fraser.
Macmillan, 268 pp., £16, February 1982,0 333 31034 9 Show More
by Hamish Fraser.
Macmillan, 268 pp., £16, February 1982,
“... the last century, are well illustrated in two books of rather old-fashioned economic history. M.W. Kirby bases his tale of woe on the assumption that British economic decline began around 1870, which, bearing in mind McCloskey’s argument that the economy was not yet mature in 1860, leaves a very short period in which the workshop of the world got its act ... ”
