Britain and America : studies in comparative history, 1760-1970 / edited by David Englander at the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Political Culture and Development. I.1. The structure of Anglo-American political discourse / J. C. D. Clark. I.2. Anticipating America: American mentality before the Revolution / Mary K. Geiter and W. A. Speck -- Pt. II. Economic Development. II.1. Britain and America: the economic effects of labour scarcity / H. J. Habakkuk. II.2. The American impact on British industry / S. B. Saul -- Pt. III. The City. III.1. The English and American industrial city of the nineteenth century / Leon S. Marshall. III.2. Police and industrial disputes in Britain and the United States / Clive Emsley. III.3. Suburbanization and social change in England and North America, 1880-1970 / Mark Clapson. III.4. A comparative historical geography of streetcar suburbs in Boston, Massachusetts and Leeds, England, 1850-1920 / David Ward -- Pt. IV. Class and Class Conflict. IV.1. Working class formation and the state: nineteenth-century England in American perspective / Ira Katznelson.

IV.2. Factory politics in Britain and the United States: engineers and machinists, 1914-1919 / Jeffrey Haydu -- Pt. V. Gender, Citizenship and Welfare. V.1. Woman suffrage in Britain and America in the early twentieth century / David Morgan. V.2. Why not equal protection? Explaining the politics of public social spending in Britain, 1900-1911, and the United States, 1880-1920 / Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol. V.3. Gender and the origins of modern social policies in Britain and the United States / Theda Skocpol and Gretchen Ritter. V.4. State capacity in Britain and America in the 1930s / Anthony Badger.