Britain ascendant: comparative studies in Franco-British economic history

Abstract

Introduction 1. England and France in the eighteenth century: a comparative analysis of two economic growths 2. Criticisms and self-criticisms of a comparison 3. When the Mediterranean looked to England 4. The sources of England's wealth: some French views in the eighteenth century 5. Capital formation in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution 7. Great Britain's response to the French Revolution and to Napoleon 8. Wars, blockade, and economic change in Europe, 1792-1815 9. variations on the North Atlantic Triangle from York-town to Waterloo 10. Western Europe and Great Britain: 'catching up' in the first half of the nineteenth century 11. Trade and empire: the British experience from the establishment of free trade until the First World War 12. British coal in France in the nineteenth century 13. The core and the periphery of the core: Franco-british trade in the belle epoque 14. Problems of communication between Britain and france in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Index.