A companion to nineteenth-century Britain

TLDR: The relationship between trade and industrialization is explored by R. R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics (1988), to which I. H. Stone, The Global Export of Capital from Great Britain, 1865-1914 (1999) is a valuable addition as mentioned in this paper.

Abstract: of British Historical Statistics (1962), A. H. Imlah, Economic Elements in the Pax Britannica: Studies in British Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century (1958), and B. R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics (1988), to which I. Stone, The Global Export of Capital from Great Britain, 1865–1914 (1999) is a valuable addition. Particular issues are dealt with in F. Crouzet, Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British Economic History (1990), P. Mathias and J. Davis, eds, International Trade and British Economic Growth (1996), and D. McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics (1981). The link between trade and industrialization is explored by R. Davis, The Industrial Revolution and British Overseas Trade (1979), while S. B. Saul’s Studies in British Overseas Trade, 1870–1914 (1960) and The Myth of the Great Depression, 1873–1896 (1985) remain valuable for changes in the late nineteenth century. The relationship with empire is central to P. Cain and A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism, 1688–2000 (2001) and there are relevant essays in A. Porter, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3, The Nineteenth Century (1999). For the political economy of British trade policy, see A. Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846–1946 (1997) and D. Winch and P. K. O’Brien, eds, The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688–1914 (2002). britain and the world economy 33