State and Market in Victorian Britain

Traces the effects and consequences of radical economic change, moral, social, and fiscal, in the Victorian period. In the course of the nineteenth century, the economic structure and policies of Britain were remade, as the costs of the "fiscal-military" state which fought successful wars against France were cut, and monopolies gave way to freetrade, while monetary policy was determined by the automatic operation of the gold standard. However, the result was not, as might be expected, the triump