Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.