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71. The British Tariff System

    By E.B. McGuire

    Series: Economic History

    This book provides a comprehensive description of the protectionist system that has for some years been in force in Great Britain. It explains in simple language the principles and difficulties involved in framing and administering a customs and excise tariff, which has both revenue and political...

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
72. The Victorian Economy

    By Francois Crouzet

    Series: Economic History

    Britain’s role in the mid-nineteenth century as the world’s greatest economic power was an extraordinary phenomenon, foreshadowed in the Industrial Revolution of the century before and originating from a unique combination of global and indigenous factors. In this study François Crouzet analyses...

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
73. The Clothing Workers of Great Britain

    By S.P Dobbs

    Series: Economic History

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
74. Problems of British Economic Policy, 1870-1945

    By Jim Tomlinson

    Series: Economic History

    Most historical accounts of economic policy set out to describe the way in which governments have attempted to solve their economic problems and to achieve their economic objectives. Jim Tomlinson, however, focuses on the problems themselves, arguing that the way in which areas of economic policy...

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
75. Industrial Finance, 1830-1914

    The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry

    By P.L. Cottrell

    Series: Economic History

    The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to the radically new environment. An appreciation of the history of these developments makes a...

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
76. An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa

    By Charles Issawi

    Series: Economic History

    The economic history of the Middle East and North Africa is quite extraordinary. This is an axiomatic statement, but the very nature of the economic changes that have stemmed directly from the effects of oil resources in these areas has tended to obscure longterm patterns of economic change and...

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
77. Years of Recovery

    British Economic Policy 1945-51

    By Alec Cairncross

    Series: Economic History

    Years of Recovery was the first comprehensive study of the transition from war to peace in the British economy under the Labour government of 1945–51. It includes a full account of the successive crises and turning-points in those hectic years – the coal and convertibility crises of 1947,...

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
78. An Economic History of the United States Since 1783

    By Peter D'A Jones

    Series: Economic History

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
79. American Business Cycles 1945-50

    By Conrad Blyth

    Series: Economic History

    After the end of the Second World War businessmen and economists throughout the world feared that the American postwar inflationary boom would end in a serious slump. The slump took a long time to come, and when it did appear in 1949 it was both mild and short lived. In its mildness and brevity it...

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
80. The Economic and Social Foundations of European Civilization

    By Alfons Dopsch

    Series: Economic History

    Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge