The British Industrial Decline Book

	Contributors
	Foreword
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The literature of decline	5
1	Converging accounts, misleading metaphors and persistent doubts: reflections on the historiography of Britain's 'decline'	7
2	1066 and a wave of gadgets: the achievements of British growth	27
Pt. II	Economic growth and performance	45
3	Industrial performance, the infrastructure and government policy	47
4	Competitiveness and growth: new perspectives on the late Victorian and Edwardian economy	65
5	Flagging or failing? British economic performance, 1880-1914	85
Pt. III	Technology and industry	101
6	The audit of the Great War on British technology	103
7	The balance of technological transfers 1870-1914	114
8	Regional vs national perspectives on economic 'decline' in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain	139
Pt. IV	Institutions and culture	153
9	Education and economic decline 1870-1914: an innocent suspect?	155
10	The voice of industry and the ethos of decline: business citizenship, public service and the making of a British industrial elite	175
11	The City of London, 1880-1914: tradition and innovation	189
Pt. V	A French perspective on the British 'decline'	205
12	France's experience of industrial retardation during the Belle Epoque	207
	Index of names	231