South Britain
Rosalind Mitchison, 1 April 1982
The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. 1: 1700-1860
edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey.
Cambridge, 323 pp., £25, October 1981,0 521 23166 3 Show More
edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey.
Cambridge, 323 pp., £25, October 1981,
The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. II: 1860 to the 1970s
edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey.
Cambridge, 485 pp., £30, October 1981,0 521 23167 1 Show More
edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey.
Cambridge, 485 pp., £30, October 1981,
“... receive a new twist, or are taken down to an altogether deeper level of thought. In Volume I, McCloskey and R.P. Thomas measure the cost to the American colonists of trade control by the British Navigation Acts, and end up with the figure of under 1.8 per cent of colonial income: a new low. As a price to pay for the services of British military ... ”
