1: Introduction
Part I
The Anatomy of the British Economy
2: Aristocrats, agriculture and the land
3: Industrialists and the urban economy
4: The service economy
5: The growth of the British economy
Part II
Globalization and Deglobalization
6: Free trade and protectionism
7: Capital exports
8: The rise and demise of the gold standard
9: Rebuilding the international economic order?
Part III
Poverty, Prosperity and Population
10: Births and marriages
11: Deaths and disease
12: Rich and poor
13: Cultures of consumption
Part IV
Public Policy and the State
14: Taxing and spending
15: Education
16: From the poor law to the Liberal social reforms
17: War, reconstruction and depression
18: Building a new Jerusalem
By studying the Victorian organization of knowledge in its institutional, social, and intellectual settings, these essays contribute to our wider consideration of the complex and much debated concept of knowledge.
Martin Daunton is Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and President
of the Royal Historical Society. He was formerly Professor of
Economic History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of
Churchill College. He has written extensively on British history
since 1700, especially on urban history and economic and social
policy, and is the author of Progress and Poverty, which covers the
period from 1700 to 1851 and is also published by Oxford
University
Press.
a highly significant contribution to the discipline of economic and
social history and goes far beyond what is conventionally
understood as a textbook ... it is an object lesson in balanced
judgement and incisive analysis.
*Alan Booth, English Historical Review*
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