Studies in Capital Formation in the United Kingdom 1750-1920 [Hardcover]

Based largely on archival and other primary sources, this collection of essays attempts to understand Britain's gain in--and subsequent loss of--economic preeminence during the industrial revolution, uncovering new statistical information on areas ranging from agriculture, mining, transportation, and insurance, to textiles, corn milling, steam power, and land.

Feinstein displays his multifarious sources and his methods of estimation very fully. His achievement is aremarkable tour de force, which economic historians must greet with equal admiration and gratitude. --Victorian Studies

The book represents an extraordinary achievement. The estimates are derived with unbelievable care, and one sets the book down in the belief that there are simply no scraps of archival information that have been left untouched and that there are no economic historians who know better how to use them...Historians of the British economy must go out and buy the book. It will remain a key reference for many years to come. --Modern Europe