Britain Ascendant: Studies in British and Franco-British Economic History Book

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 époque;
14. Problems of communication between Britain and france in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Index.