British Industrial Decline

Michael Dintenfass, Jean-Pierre Dormois

• Preface Introduction The Literature of Decline 1. Converging Accounts, Misleading Metaphors, and Persistent Doubts: Reflections on the Historiography of Britain's Decline Michael Dintenfass 2. 1066 and a Wave of Gadgets: The Achievements of British Growth Donald N. McCloskey Economic Growth and Performance 3. Industrial Performance, the Infrastructure and Government Policy Robert Millward 4. Competitiveness and Growth: New Perspectives on the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Economy David Greasley and Les Oxley 5. Flagging or Failing: British Economic Performance, 1880-1914 B.W.E. Alford Technology and Industry 6. The Audit of the Great War on British Technology Correlli Barnett 7. The Balance of Technological Transfers 1870-1914 James Foreman-Peck 8. Regional vs. National Perspectives on Economic Decline in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain W.R. Garside Institutions and Culture 9. Education and Economic Decline 1870-1914: An Innocent Suspect? Michael Sanderson 10. The Voice of Industry and the Ethos of Decline: Industrial Citizenship, Public Service, the Making of a British Industrial Elite Michael Dintenfass 11. The City of London, 1880-1914: Tradition and Innovation Peter Cain A French Perspective on the British 'Decline' 12. France's Experience of Industrial Retardation During the Belle Epoque Jean-Pierre Dormois