The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (2^nd Ed., Revised edition) The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain 2 Volume Hardback Set Series

A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.

1. Economic growth during the long twentieth century Nicholas Crafts; 2. From empire to Europe: Britain in the world economy Kevin O'Rourke; 3. Population, migration and labour supply Tim Hatton; 4. Health and welfare Bernard Harris; 5. Income and living standards Ian Gazeley; 6. Technology, innovation and economic growth Tom Nicholas; 7. Consumption and affluence Avner Offer; 8. Cycles and depressions Matthias Morys; 9. The City and the corporate economy David Chambers; 10. Armaments and the economy Jari Eloranta; 11. The deindustrial revolution: the rise and fall of UK manufacturing, 1870–2010 Michael Kitson and Jonathan Michie; 12. The rise of the service sector Steve Broadberry; 13. The household economy Peter Scott; 14. Growth of the public sector Bob Millward; 15. Soft power: the media industries Gerben Bakker; 16. Sterling and monetary policy Catherine Schenk; 17. Economic policy and management Roger Middleton; 18. Economic ideas and ideology Roger Backhouse and Keith Tribe.

Roderick Floud has taught modern British history in the UK and the USA; his recent research has used information on human height and weight to explore changes in living standards and he is one of the founders of the sub-discipline of anthropometric history, summed up in The Changing Body (Cambridge, 2011) which has been widely praised. He wrote the first textbook of quantitative methods for historians and has edited all four editions of The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Roderick has also written extensively on higher education policy and received a knighthood for services to higher education. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Academician of the Social Sciences. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in the United States and is currently Chair of the Social Sciences Committee of the European Science Foundation. He has recently embarked on a new research study of the economic history of British gardening.
Jane Humphries is Professor of Economic History at Oxford University where she teaches economic and social history at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research has ranged across many issues to do with growth and development. She has also published extensively on gender, the family and the history of women's work. Her recent Ranki prize-winning monograph, Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution, involves a bold and innovative use of working-class memoir, studied both quantitatively and qualitatively, a methodology that she is developing further in her current study of women and girls' experiences of industrialization. She presented the recent BBC4 documentary, 'The Children Who Built Victorian Britain', which was based on her work. Professor Humphries is a Fellow of All Souls College, an Academician of the Social Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy.