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International Trade and British Economic Growth

From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day

John Davis editor Peter Mathias editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:26th Apr '97

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This book explores the relationship between international trade and domestic economic growth in Britain since the eighteenth century. It was during this time that Britain enjoyed first a dominant role in world trade and then, from the outbreak of the First World War, saw its economic strength eclipsed by other emerging international powers. The essays here focus on two central concerns in the history of British economic development in the period; was overseas and colonial trade in the eighteenth century the principal motor of British industrial development? Has the structure of Britain's overseas trade in the twentieth century been one of the factors contributing to the "decline of the British industrial economy"?

ISBN: 9780631181163

Dimensions: 238mm x 161mm x 18mm

Weight: 425g

180 pages