Modern Economic and Social History: Modern Economic and Social History
About the Book Series
Modern Economic and Social History encourages the publication of scholarly monographs on aspects of modern economic and social history. While emphasis is placed on works embodying original research, the series also provides studies of a more general and thematic nature which offer a reappraisal or critical analysis of major issues of debate. Economic and social history has been a flourishing subject of scholarly study during recent decades. Not only has the volume of literature increased enormously but the range of interest in time, space and subject matter has broadened considerably so that today there are many sub-branches of the subject which have developed considerable status in their own right.
Wheels and Deals: The Automotive Industry in Twentieth-Century Australia
1st Edition
By Robert Conlon, John Perkins
November 25, 2019
This title was first published in 2001. The emergence and development of automobile production in Australia was a long, drawn out and costly business for car buyers and taxpayers. Wheels and Deals, is the story of some of the causes and effects of Australian Government policies on the local ...
Alfred Herbert Ltd and the British Machine Tool Industry, 1887-1983
1st Edition
By Roger Lloyd-Jones, M.J. Lewis
September 25, 2017
At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, this study charts the wider ...
Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840
1st Edition
By Richard Perren
September 14, 2017
Focusing on the interactions of producers, sellers and consumers of meat across the world, Richard Perren elucidates aspects of the evolution of the international economy and the part played by the investment of capital and the enterprise of individuals. The study utilises the government reports ...
An Affluent Society?: Britain's Post-War 'Golden Age' Revisited
1st Edition
By Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton
May 16, 2017
During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to epitomize the sense of increased affluence and social progress that was prevalent in Britain during ...
Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War: The Political Economy and the Economic Impact of the British Defence Effort, 1945-1955
1st Edition
By Till Geiger
May 16, 2017
Many accounts of British development since 1945 have attempted to discover why Britain experienced slower rates of economic growth than other Western European countries. In many cases, the explanation for this phenomenon has been attributed to the high level of defence spending that successive ...
Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970
1st Edition
Edited
By John Wilson, Andrew Popp
May 16, 2017
Although economists have long recognised industrial districts as one of the key features of many economies, it is only recently that attention has been focused on the region as an effective means of generating accurate insights into the larger picture of economic performance. This renewed interest...
Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850
1st Edition
By Robin Pearson
May 16, 2017
Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking. Yet whilst the danger of fire had always been taken seriously, it was not until the start of the eighteenth century that a ...
Raleigh and the British Bicycle Industry: An Economic and Business History, 1870–1960
1st Edition
By Roger Lloyd-Jones, M. J. Lewis
May 16, 2017
This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of the British bicycle industry from the perspective of business and economic history. Focusing on themes such as entrepreneurship, personal capitalism, and organisational, technological and cultural change, the shifting fortunes of ...
Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870–2000
1st Edition
By Derek H. Aldcroft, Michael J. Oliver
May 16, 2017
What do unions do and why do they do it? Do they seek to maximise profit for their members, or to obtain better working conditions that benefit society as a whole? Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver here provide one of the first sustained studies of the effects of union activities in terms of ...
Exchange Rates and Economic Policy in the 20th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Ross E. Catterall, Derek H. Aldcroft
March 29, 2017
The themes of this study are the exchange rate regimes chosen by policy makers in the twentieth century, the means used to maintain these regimes, and the impact of these decisions on individual national economies and the world economy in general. The book draws heavily on new research showing the ...
Industrial Reorganization and Government Policy in Interwar Britain
1st Edition
By Julian Greaves
March 29, 2017
Offering a detailed overview of state involvement in the rationalisation and reorganisation of British industry between the wars, this is the first work to address the issues in a comprehensive manner for over 50 years. Utilising a range of primary source material (including papers from the PRO, ...
Arms and the State: Sir William Armstrong and the Remaking of British Naval Power, 1854–1914
1st Edition
By Marshall J. Bastable
March 06, 2017
Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first and foremost modern armaments company, the Armstrong Whitworth Company, from its origins in 1854 to 1914. It focuses on the role of Sir William G. Armstrong, an engineer and entrepreneur who transformed his modest mechanical engineering business ...