I think this is the book I read in 1969 about the Depression of 1888 in England---somtimes referred to as "after the rairoads were built". Rostow's analysis allowed me to see parallels in 1990's and avoid the crash and prosper in its aftermath. Great economic history. ape

This book is a collection of essays, each examining various aspects of the British economy in the Nineteenth Century. It contains quite a large number of charts, and is heavily footnoted. These essays are written in a scholarly (almost turgid) style, which means that the casual reader will have some trouble following them. Fortunately, this book does examine the Great Depression of 1873-96 in depth, and from several different angles.

Below is part of the table of contents. I include this to give the potential purchaser an idea of all that is covered in this book.

Part I: ANALYSIS||I. Trends in the British Economy: 1790-1914||II. Cycles in the British Economy: 1790-1914||III. Investment and the Great Depression||IV. Investment and Real Wages: 1873-86||Part II: ECONOMIC FACTORS AND POLITICS||V. Trade Cycles, Harvests, and Politics: 1790-1850||VI. Economic Factors and Politics: Britain in the Nineteenth Century||Part III: ECONOMIC THEORIES||VII. Explanations of the Great Depression||VIII. Bagehot and the Trade Cycle||Part IV: Narrative||IX. The Depression of the Seventies: 1874-9||Section I: General||Section II: The Money Market||Section III: Long-Term Investment||Section IV: Commerce and Industry||Section V: Labour||Note: The Principal Statistical Indexes||APPENDIX. Mr. Kalecki on the Distribution of Income, 1880-1913