Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 (Routledge Revivals)

Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136629408

First published in 1978, Professor O’Brien’s Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history. It finds a controversial place in the debate on the question of French retardation in the 19th century and as a brave and important contribution towards the understanding of economic growth in Western Europe. The author attempts to comprehend and evaluate the economic performance of France through explicit comparisons with Britain, while considering British economic history from a French perspective. Challenging the orthodox view that France lagged behind Britain in economic terms, the book argues that there were two paths of economic growth to the 20th century, with France’s path seen as a more humane and no less efficient transition to industrial society.

Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 (Routledge Revivals)

Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136629416

First published in 1978, Professor O’Brien’s Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history. It finds a controversial place in the debate on the question of French retardation in the 19th century and as a brave and important contribution towards the understanding of economic growth in Western Europe. The author attempts to comprehend and evaluate the economic performance of France through explicit comparisons with Britain, while considering British economic history from a French perspective. Challenging the orthodox view that France lagged behind Britain in economic terms, the book argues that there were two paths of economic growth to the 20th century, with France’s path seen as a more humane and no less efficient transition to industrial society.

Work and Revolution in France

Work and Revolution in France
Author: William H. Sewell, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1980-10-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521299510

Sewell synthesizes the material on the social history of the French labor movement from its formative period to the first half of the 19th century. Centers on the Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848.

Early Debates about Industry

Early Debates about Industry
Author: F. Schui
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2005-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230513336

Industry has been at the centre of some of the most formidable political and economic debates of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores the pivotal decades of the eighteenth-century in which the modern concept of industry was, for the first time, at the heart of heated debates in France and other European countries. The close reading of contemporary debates illuminates the origins of an economic key concept and suggests a fresh perspective on the rise of industry in the eighteenth-century.

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Author: Robert C. Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2009-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521868270

Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The French Revolution

The French Revolution
Author: Gary Kates
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006
Genre: Civilization, Modern
ISBN: 9780415358323

Collating key texts at the forefront of new research and interpretation, this updated second edition adds new articles on the Terror and race/colonial issues, and studies all aspects of this major event, from its origins through to its consequences.

Management and Business in Britain and France

Management and Business in Britain and France
Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198289401

A comparison of economic and business development in Britain and France in the 19th and 20th centuries. With a mixture of case-studies, sectoral analysis, and comparison, this book is a useful addition to an understanding of the evolution of business organization, competitiveness, and performance.

The Ascendancy of Europe

The Ascendancy of Europe
Author: M.S. Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317868528

This new edition of the seminal and best selling history of Europe's century of global ascendancy includes a new introduction and bibliography. The carefully drawn discussions are pulled together and reinforced by a new afterword. Presented in a new textbook format and thoroughly revised throughout, the survey provides students with an invaluable guide to a notoriously complex period. Lucidly written and constructed as a series of essays, the text covers the political and economic balance of power, the mechanics of government, economy and society, states, nations, europe and the world, Armed Forces and war and romanticism, evolution and consciousness. Reviews of the previous editions`Anderson's book is one of the few that explains economic, social, military, intellectual and colonial developments in a clear, precise and engaging manner.'Teaching History `Packed with shrewdness, wisdom and well-directed erudition...invaluble to university students and teachers.' British Book News