Table of Contents

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

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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.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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*