Studies in Capital Formation in the United Kingdom 1750-1920

by Charles H. Feinstein (Editor), Sidney Pollard (Editor)

Overview

Based largely on archival and other primary sources, this collection of essays attempts to understand Britain's gain in—and subsequent loss of—economic 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198284086
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1988
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	6.44(w) x 9.56(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

Oxford University

Bielefeld University

Table of Contents

	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

Editorial Reviews

"Feinstein displays his multifarious sources and his methods of estimation very fully. His achievement is aremarkable tour de force, which economic historians must greet with equal admiration and gratitude."—Victorian Studies

"The book represents an extraordinary achievement. The estimates are derived with unbelievable care, and one sets the book down in the belief that there are simply no scraps of archival information that have been left untouched and that there are no economic historians who know better how to use them...Historians of the British economy must go out and buy the book. It will remain a key reference for many years to come."—Modern Europe

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