Britain’s role in the mid-nineteenth century as the world’s greatest economic power was an extraordinary phenomenon, foreshadowed in the Industrial Revoluti

The overlooked story of how ordinary women and their husbands managed financially in the Victorian era – and why so many struggled despite increasing national

Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, sto

The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented

The book focuses upon three central themes: industrial organisation and technology, wages and living standards, and the monetary system. These are at the heart