Book description
For two and a half centuries Britain has been in the forefront of world social and economic developments. The first nation to evolve an industrial economy, she has since led the way in seeking forms of government and social organisation suited to a modern and responsible state.
CONTENTS:
1. POPULATION – EXPLOSION AND REVERBERATIONS
2. THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
3. THE TRANSPORT REVOLUTION
4. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
5. THE BIRTH OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
6. OVERSEAS TRADE
7. THE OLD STAPLES
8. LABOUR AND SOCIETY
9. TRANSPORT – SHIPS AND PLANES
10. TRANSPORT – RAIL AND ROAD
11. FARMING – THE CIRCLE OF CHANGE
12. THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY ECONOMY – WAR AND SLUMP
13. THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY ECONOMY – WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
14. SOCIAL PATTERNS
15. LEARNING AND BELIEF
16. ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY
17. A MODERN STATE
