Authors: Feinstein, Charles H. Feinstein (Editor), Sidney Pollard
ISBN-13: 9780198284086, ISBN-10: 019828408X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: January 1988
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Oxford University
Bielefeld University
Based largely on archival and other primary sources, this collection of essays attempts to understand Britain's gain inand subsequent loss ofeconomic preeminence during the industrial revolution, uncovering new statistical information on areas ranging from agriculture, mining, transportation, and insurance, to textiles, corn milling, steam power, and land.
List of Contributors | vii | |
List of Tables | viii | |
List of Appendix Tables | xv | |
List of Figures | xvii | |
Introduction | 1 | |
Part I | Sectoral Studies | |
1. | Agriculture, 1770-1860 | 9 |
2. | Coal Mining, 1750-1850 | 35 |
3. | The Iron Industry, 1750-1850 | 73 |
4. | The Cotton Industry, 1775-1856 | 105 |
5. | The Wool Textile Industry, 1780-1850 | 126 |
6. | The Corn Milling Industry, 1750-1820 | 141 |
7. | Fixed Capital Formation in Steam Power, 1775-1825 A Case Study of the Boulton and Watt Engine | 164 |
8. | Roads and Waterways, 1750-1850 | 182 |
9. | The Insurance Policies | 225 |
Part II | National Statistics, 1760-1920: Sources and Methods of Estimation for Domestic Reproducible Fixed Assets, Stocks and Works in Progress, Overseas Assets, and Land | |
Introduction to Part II | 258 | |
10. | Agriculture | 267 |
11. | Mining and Quarrying | 281 |
12. | Manufacturing | 286 |
13. | Gas, Water, and Electricity Supply Undertakings | 302 |
14. | Distribution and Other Services | 307 |
15. | Transport and Communications | 312 |
16. | Public and Social Services | 355 |
17. | Residential Dwellings | 379 |
18. | Stocks and Work in Progress, Overseas Assets, and Land | 391 |
Annexes | ||
A. | Indices of Rent | 405 |
B. | Gross Annual Value of Dwellings and of Industrial and Commercial Buildings | 411 |
C. | Relationship between the Gross Stock of Dwellings and the Gross Annual Value Assesed to Tax | 420 |
Appendix | Tables I-XXIII | 425 |
Index | 472 |