The British industrial decline / edited by Jean-Pierre Dormois and Michael Dintenfass.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chapter INTRODUCTION -- part Part I THE LITERATURE OF DECLINE -- chapter 1 CONVERGING ACCOUNTS, MISLEADING METAPHORS AND PERSISTENT DOUBTS -- Reflections on the historiography of Britain's 'decline' / MICHAEL DINTENFASS -- chapter 2 1066 AND A WAVE OF GADGETS -- The achievements of British growth / Deirdre N. McCloskey -- part Part II ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PERFORMANCE -- chapter 3 INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE, THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND GOVERNMENT POLICY -- An international comparison of British performance and policy 1800-1987 / Robert Millward -- chapter 4 COMPETITIVENESS AND GROWTH -- New perspectives on the late Victorian and Edwardian economy / David Greasley -- chapter 5 FLAGGING OR FAILING? BRITISH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, 1880-1914 / B.W.E. Alford -- part Part III TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY -- chapter 6 THE AUDIT OF THE GREAT WAR ON BRITISH TECHNOLOGY / Correlli Barnett -- chapter 7 THE BALANCE OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFERS 1870-1914 / James Foreman-Peck -- chapter 8 Regional vs national perspectives on economic 'decline' in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain / W.R. Garside -- part Part IV INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURE -- chapter 9 Education and economic decline 1870-1914 -- An innocent suspect? / Michael Sanderson -- chapter 10 THE VOICE OF INDUSTRY AND THE ETHOS OF DECLINE -- Business citizenship, public service and the making of a British industrial élite / Michael Dintenfass -- chapter 11 THE CITY OF LONDON, 1880-1914 -- Tradition and innovation / Peter Cain -- part Part V A FRENCH PERSPECTIVE ON THE BRITISH DECLINE -- chapter 12 FRANCE'S EXPERIENCE OF INDUSTRIAL RETARDATION DURING THE BELLE EPOQUE / Jean-Pierre Dormois.

This book sets out the present state of the discussion of the decline in British industry and introduces new directions in which the debate is now proceeding.

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