The early railway age, 1820-1850
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The early railway age, 1820-1850
(An economic history of modern Britain / by J.H. Clapham, v. 1)
Cambridge University Press, 2008
2nd ed., reprinted with corrections
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"This digitally printed version 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
When this volume of work was published, The Times welcomed the book and the project in these words: Here - almost for the first time - we have a picture of normal society in a past age in the same fullness of detail as we can picture our own age. It is the beginning of what we have never had before, a history of the English people. The first volume of John Harold Clapham's remarkable and original work begins with a comprehensive description of Britain on the eve of the Railway Age, covering topics such as the organisation of agriculture, industry and commerce. The second half of the volume takes as its starting point the opening of Liverpool-Manchester Railway in 1830 and investigates the social and fiscal policies of this period of rapid change as well as the advances in engineering and their effects.
Table of Contents
- Book I. Britain on the Eve of the Railway Age
- 1. The Face of the Country
- 2. Population
- 3. Communications
- 4. Agrarian Organisation
- 5. Industrial Organisation
- 6. The Organisation of Commerce
- 7. Money, Banking, Insurance and Special Commercial Organisations
- 8. Economic Activities of the State
- Book II. The Early Railway Age
- 9. The Railways and Railway Policy
- 10. Iron, coal, steam and engineering
- 11. Agriculture
- 12. Overseas Trade and Commercial Policy
- 13. Banking, Prices and the Money Market
- 14. Life and Labour in Industrial Britain
- Appendix
- Index
- Plates and Diagrams.
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