| The People and the British Economy, 1830-1914 Contributor(s): Floud, Roderick (Author) |
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ISBN: 019289210X ISBN-13: 9780192892102 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $49.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1997 Annotation: Between 1830 and 1914 Britain became the world's major trading nation, carrier of the majority of the world's goods, by far the largest investor overseas, and the centre of the world's financial system. It was an exceptional time in the history of the country and one to which many look back, even a hundred years later, with nostalgia. Concentrating on people rather on things, this book seeks to describe the overall income and wealth of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, its growth, and how that income and wealth was produced by and distributed between different people in the population. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics - Business & Economics | International - Economics |
| Dewey: 339.470 |
| LCCN: 96052762 |
| Lexile Measure: 1530 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5" W x 8" (0.56 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Between 1830 and 1914 Britain became the world's major trading nation, carrier of the majority of the world's goods, by far the largest investor overseas, and the centre of the world's financial system. It was an exceptional time in the history of the country and one to which many look back, even a hundred years later, with nostalgia. Concentrating on people rather on things, this book seeks to describe the overall income and wealth of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, its growth, and how that income and wealth was produced by and distributed between different people in the population. |