Wealth and Welfare

• Incorporates economic and political history, making the book accessible to non-economists
• Looks at the social experience of living in an age of rising and falling prices
• Places the British economy in a global setting

Readership: Undergraduate students on history or modern/contemporary history degrees, taking a module on 19th century Britain, modern British history or society and economy in Britain.

Martin Daunton, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and President of the Royal Historical Society

1: Introduction
Part I
The Anatomy of the British Economy
2: Aristocrats, agriculture and the land
3: Industrialists and the urban economy
4: The service economy
5: The growth of the British economy
Part II
Globalization and Deglobalization
6: Free trade and protectionism
7: Capital exports
8: The rise and demise of the gold standard
9: Rebuilding the international economic order?
Part III
Poverty, Prosperity and Population
10: Births and marriages
11: Deaths and disease
12: Rich and poor
13: Cultures of consumption
Part IV
Public Policy and the State
14: Taxing and spending
15: Education
16: From the poor law to the Liberal social reforms
17: War, reconstruction and depression
18: Building a new Jerusalem