The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Contents Preface List of Tables x 1 The British Economy. Kirby, M W The decline of British Economic power since 1870. 1. Great Britain - Economic conditions - 19th century 2. Great Britain - ...
... British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Contents Preface List of Tables x 1 The British Economy. Kirby, M W The decline of British Economic power since 1870. 1. Great Britain - Economic conditions - 19th century 2. Great Britain - ...
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M.W. Kirby. Contents. Preface List of Tables x 1 The British Economy 1870-1913: the Descent from Hegemony 1 2 The British Economy in the 1920s: Growth and Stagnation 3 The British Economy in the 1930s: Recovery on the Dole 4 The Second ...
M.W. Kirby. Contents. Preface List of Tables x 1 The British Economy 1870-1913: the Descent from Hegemony 1 2 The British Economy in the 1920s: Growth and Stagnation 3 The British Economy in the 1930s: Recovery on the Dole 4 The Second ...
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... Britain's economic predicament in the final quarter of the twentieth century are to be found in the equivalent years of the last century. Thus, any attempt to explain the current problems of the British economy by reference to the ...
... Britain's economic predicament in the final quarter of the twentieth century are to be found in the equivalent years of the last century. Thus, any attempt to explain the current problems of the British economy by reference to the ...
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... Economy 1860-1913. 4 Comparative Long-Term Rates of Growth 1870/1-1913. 5 UK Balance of Payments 1920-38. 6 Percentage Unemployed (Insured Workforce) 1920-39. 7 UK ... British Economy 1870-1913: the Descent from Hegemony In List of Tables.
... Economy 1860-1913. 4 Comparative Long-Term Rates of Growth 1870/1-1913. 5 UK Balance of Payments 1920-38. 6 Percentage Unemployed (Insured Workforce) 1920-39. 7 UK ... British Economy 1870-1913: the Descent from Hegemony In List of Tables.
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... Britain from an increasingly hostile world. As if to confirm the validity of this developing pessimism in late Victorian Britain the available statistical indices point to a deterior 1 The British Economy 1870-1913: the Descent from ...
... Britain from an increasingly hostile world. As if to confirm the validity of this developing pessimism in late Victorian Britain the available statistical indices point to a deterior 1 The British Economy 1870-1913: the Descent from ...
Contents
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Growth and Stagnation | 24 |
Recovery on the Dole | 57 |
the Bankrupt State | 82 |
the Political Economy of Failure | 105 |
Statistical Tables | 137 |
Notes | 160 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 201 |
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