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
By setting industrialization against the background of wider processes of economic growth, recent trends in economic history have once again placed agriculture at the centre of debate on the formation
The book brings together a number of different approaches and the topics covered vary in theme and scope, including broad general surveys (for example, of the historical debate on the early factory ma