A short history of the international economy, 1850-1950.

I. The mid-nineteenth century -- II. The spread of mechanization and the growth of production -- III. Business management and organization -- IV. Labour -- V. Government and economic life -- VI. The emergence of an international economy before 1914 -- VII. International economic relations 1914 - 1933 -- VIII. International economic relations 1933-1950.

To attempt to write within a small compass the history of the economic interrelations of the various parts of the world in the last hundred years is an undertaking that combines the hazards of novelty and wide scope. But experience in teaching the subject to undergraduates who were often over-conscious of its magnitude and puzzled by some of its intricacies has persuaded me that a book on this theme could, in spite of inevitable omissions, serve a useful purpose. It is with the needs of university students in their second or later years that I have been chiefly concerned with while writing, but I have also hoped that the work might be of some value to the general reader with a lively interest in the process of historical development and the nature of modern society." -- preface.