The Myth of Consensus: New Views on British History, 1945–64

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Main Trends in National Economic Disparities since the Industrial Revolution....Pages 3-17
Inequality among Nations: 1950 and 1975....Pages 18-25
Industry and Empire: The Beginnings of French Industrial Politics in the Colonies under the Vichy Regime....Pages 29-33
Constraints to Economic Development in Africa: Some Determinants of Economic Disparities....Pages 34-45
Notes on the Patterns of Economic Growth in the British North American Colonies in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries....Pages 46-57
Decolonisation and the Multinational Company: Unilever in India, 1917–65....Pages 58-64
Egypt, Iran and Turkey, 1800–1970: Patterns of Growth and Development....Pages 65-77
Technology Transfer, Population Growth and the Development Gap since the Industrial Revolution....Pages 78-85
The Economic Underdevelopment of the United States South in the Post-Bellum Era....Pages 86-97
Export Growth and Capitalist Development in Colombia in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 98-109
Terms of Trade Between France and Latin America, 1826–1856: Causes of Increasing Economic Disparities?....Pages 110-119
The Unevenness of the Socio-economic Development and Prospects for the Economic Self-sufficiency of the Countries of the East....Pages 120-127
Methodological Aspects in Describing the Bourgeois and Industrial Revolutions....Pages 131-136
Economic Integration and Regional Development in Austria-Hungary, 1867–1913....Pages 137-150
The Process of Industrialisation in General and the Process of Industrialisation in Italy: Some Suggestions, Problems and Questions....Pages 151-164
On the Economic Development of the Habsburg Monarchy....Pages 165-174
Structural Change and Industrialisation in Inter-war Central-East Europe....Pages 175-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Regional Economic Inequality in the Netherlands since 1600....Pages 189-198
Regional Differences, Differential Development and Generative Regional Growth....Pages 199-209
The Development of a Growth Pole in the Nineteenth Century illustrated by the example of Nuremberg....Pages 210-215
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Market Integration during the Period of Industrialisation in Norway....Pages 216-225
Regional Wages in Sweden during the Nineteenth Century....Pages 226-243
Regional Differences in the Position of Peasants in the European Part of Russia in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 244-247
Regional Disparities in Wages: the Cotton Industry in Nineteenth-century Germany — Some Methodological Considerations....Pages 248-258
Regional Disparities in Brabantine Urbanisation before and after the Industrial Revolution (1374–1970): Some Aspects of Measurement and Explanation....Pages 259-269
Regional Inequalities and Economic Development: French Agriculture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries....Pages 273-289
The Spread of Agricultural Growth over the Departments of France from the Mid-nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century....Pages 290-301
The Uneven Growth of Regional Incomes in France from 1840 to 1970....Pages 302-315
Regional Inequalities in Italy....Pages 319-330
Regional Development in Portugal (1929–1977): an Assessment....Pages 331-345
Regional Inequalities in Brazil during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century....Pages 349-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Regional and International Economic Disparities since the Industrial Revolution: the Indian Evidence....Pages 361-372
Inequality and Regional Development: the View from America....Pages 373-391
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Comparison of Development Levels: Inequalities in the Physical Structures of National Economies....Pages 395-410
National Product Series in Historical Analysis: a Case Study of Sweden, 1861–1975....Pages 411-419
Back Matter....Pages 420-428