The British industrial revolution in global perspective /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, England :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | New approaches to economic and social history
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Industrial Revolution and the pre-industrial economy
- 2. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain
- 3. The agricultural revolution
- 4. The cheap energy economy
- 5. Why England succeeded
- 6. Why was the Industrial Revolution British
- 7. The steam engine
- 8. Cotton
- 9. Coke smelting
- 10. Inventors, Enlightenment, and human capital
- 11. From Industrial Revolution to modern economic growth.