An Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2: Free Trade and Steel 1850-1886
By John Clapham.
Description
When the first volume of this 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. This second volume covers the period of the Great Exhibition and the development of the production of cheap mass-produced steel; the railway system continued to grow and the fortunes of canals and decline. It was an era of free trade and of great expans...
ISBN(s)
052110100X, 9780521101004
