Thoughts on the New Economic History
David Cannadine, 15 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,
The Population History of England 1541-1871: A Reconstruction
by E.A. Wrigley.
Edward Arnold, 779 pp., £45, October 1982,0 7131 6264 3 Show More
by E.A. Wrigley.
Edward Arnold, 779 pp., £45, October 1982,
The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870
by M.W. Kirby.
Allen and Unwin, 211 pp., £15, June 1981,0 04 942169 7 Show More
by M.W. Kirby.
Allen and Unwin, 211 pp., £15, June 1981,
The Coming of the Mass Market 1850-1914
by Hamish Fraser.
Macmillan, 268 pp., £16, February 1982,0 333 31034 9 Show More
by Hamish Fraser.
Macmillan, 268 pp., £16, February 1982,
“... identified over time is not the same as a deep-seated cause. In delicious contrast, Hamish Fraser’s account of the rise of a consumer society (which took place at the very same time that Kirby and others see the British economy in decline) is good old-fashioned economic history at its best: it tells a story; it is well written; it is ... ”
