This book examines the relationship between international trade and
domestic economic growth in Britain since the eighteenth century.
It was during this time that Britain enjoyed first a dominant role
in world trade and then, from the outbreak of the First World War,
saw its economic strength eclipsed by other emerging international
powers. The essays here focus on two central concerns in the
history of British economic development in the period: was overseas
and colonial trade in the eighteenth century the principal motor of
British industrial development? Has the structure of Britain's
overseas trade in the twentieth century been one of the factors
contributing to the "decline of the British industrial economy"?
In exploring these central ideas, the book examines the evolving
structures of British commercial relations, the development and
impact of commercial policies and Britain's changing international
economic position. The volume contains both general essays which
survey current debates and chapters dealing with more specific
issues, including, for example, the role of the Atlantic trade in
British economic growth in the eighteenth century; the impact of
British trade on Continental Europe in the first half of the
nineteeth century and the commercial factors which determined
Britain's reaction to the founding of the European Community. The
collection draws on distinguished scholars, whose work together
offers an important contribution to our understanding of Britain's
economic development during this pivotal period and to the wider
debate on the relationship between trade and economic growth.
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