The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around the world to produce a set of volumes which are both a lucid textbook for students and an authoritative guide to the subject. INDICE: Introduction Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson 1. Accounting for the industrial revolution Joel Mokyr 2. Industrial organisation and structure: families, institutions, risk and trust Pat Hudson 3. British population during the 'long' eighteenth century, 1680-1840 E. A. Wrigley 4. Agriculture during the industrial revolution Robert C. Allen 5. Manufacturing and technological change Kristine Bruland 6. Money, finance, and capital markets Stephen Quinn 7. Trade: discovery, mercantilism and technology C. Knick Harley 8. Government and the economy, 1688-1850 Ron Harris 9. Household economy, 1688-1850 Jane Humphries 10. Living standards and the urban environment Hans-Joachim Voth 11. Transport Simon Ville 12. Education and skill of the British labour force David Mitch 13. Consumption in eighteenth century and early nineteenth-century Britain Maxine Berg 14. Scotland T. M. Devine 15. The extractive industries Roger Burt 16. The industrial revolution in global perspective Stanley L. Engerman and Patrick K.O'Brien.