1st Edition

An Economic History of the British Isles

By Arthur Birnie Copyright 2006
    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 2005. Economic History has been briefly defined as the study of material progress. Economic History deals primarily with the material side of human progress, but it is not therefore a materialistic study.

    Introduction

    BOOK 1: FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ELEVENTH CENTURY

    1. The prehistoric age

    2. The Roman occupation

    3. The Anglo-Saxon period

    BOOK II: FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

    4. Feudalism in its economic aspect

    5. The medieval manor

    6. The decay of the Villeinage

    7. The agrarian revolution of the sixteenth century

    8. Commerce and towns

    9. Industry and craft gilds

    10. Economic opinion in the middle ages

    11. Money, moneylending and public finance

    12. The state and economic regulation

    13. The economic development of Scotland (1) the Land

    14. The economic development of Scotland (2) trade and industry

    15.  Medieval Wales and Ireland

    BOOK III: FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

    16. Commercial expansion

    17. The mercantile system

    18. Agricultural and industrial developments

    19. Money, banking and public finance

    20. Scotland and the two unions

    21. Ireland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

    BOOK IV: FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY

    22. The Industrial Revolution

    23. Consequences of industrialism

    24. The agrarain revolution

    25.  The revolution in transport

    26. The revolution in commerce

    27.  The rise and decline of free trade

    28. Banking, currency and public finance

    29. Lasissez-faire and socialism

    30. Social legislation

    31. Social movements

    32. The post-war position 

    Biography

    Arthur Birnie LECTURER IN ECONOMIC HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH