ABSTRACT

Michael Dintenfass provides a challenging account of Britain's economic performance since 1870. He combines a succinct, clearly-written survey of recent scholarly work in British economic and business history with an original interpretive alternative to the institutionalized accounts of Britain's relative decline. Dintenfass addresses both specifically economic questions and socio-historical questions to place Britain's economic history in its broadest context.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|8 pages

The historical record

chapter 2|16 pages

Tools and techniques

chapter 3|14 pages

A question of skill

chapter 4|10 pages

The bias of capital

chapter 5|10 pages

Not a nation of shopkeepers

chapter 6|12 pages

An anti-industrial society?