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The Broadening of Economic History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2008

RICHARD TOYE*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ; R.Toye@exeter.ac.uk.

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20 For an excellent recent example of the latter see Christopher Cotton, ‘The Labour Party and the 1975 Referendum on British Membership of the European Community’, M.Phil. thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006.

21 There are analogies here with the problem of the ‘claim to represent’ at the political level, described in Jon Lawrence, Speaking for the People: Party, Language and Popular Politics in England, 1867–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

22 See in particular Martin Daunton, ‘Britain and Globalisation since 1850: I. Creating a Global Order, 1850–1914’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 16 (2006), 1–38, and ‘Britain and Globalisation since 1850: II. The Rise of Insular Capitalism, 1914–1939’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 17 (2007), 1–33; and also the work of Frank Trentmann.