About this title: Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780521687850ISBN:0521687853
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 21.65 by.67 inches. (344 pages) a major new global economic history that explains why the industrial revolution occurred in britain. this landmark global economic history explains why the industrial revolution occurred in britain by highlighting the ways in which britain was different from other countries in europe and asia. combining economic, social, technological and business history, allen shows the importance of globalisation in explaining the divergence of east and ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780521687850ISBN:0521687853
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 344 pages. A major new global economic history that explains why the industrial revolution occurred in britain. 10 b/w illus. 21 tables (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780521687850ISBN:0521687853
Description: As New in As New jacket. Octavo, brick red illustrated glazed paper boards. 331 pp. including extensive index and bibliography. Tight, fresh, crisp, glossy, unmarked and unread in pristine condition. BRAND NEW. read more
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"Well writen and persuasive. Full of little nuggets.
The economic rigour should not put off the lay reader. The story is well told even if you skip the technical bits"
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