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. Volume II examines the period 1860-1939 when British economic power was at its height. It will be an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students in history, economics and other social sciences. INDICE 1. Long run growth Nicholas Crafts 2. Population and regional development, 1840-1940 Dudley Baines and Robert Woods 3. Human capital and skills Stephen Broadberry 4. Manufacturing and technological change Gary B. Magee 5. The service sector Mark Thomas 6. Agriculture 1860-1914 Michael Turner 7. Trade 1870-1939: from globalisation to fragmentation C. Knick Harley 8. Foreign investment, accumulation and empire, 1860-1914 Michael Edelstein 9. Enterprise and management Tom Nicholas 10. Domestic finance 1860-1914 P. L. Cottrell 11. Living standards, 1860-1939 George Boyer 12. The British economy between the wars Barry Eichengreen 13. Unemployment and the labour market, 1870-1939 Timothy J. Hatton 14. British Industry in the inter-war years Sue Bowden and David M. Higgins 15. Industrial and commercial finance in the inter-war years Duncan M. Ross 16. Scotland 1850-1939: growth and poverty Clive H. Lee 17. Government and the economy, 1860-1939 Roger Middleton.