E. A. Wrigley
Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
E. A. Wrigley
Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
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This book explains how new sources of energy increased productivity, thereby transforming industry and changing England permanently and fundamentally.
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This book explains how new sources of energy increased productivity, thereby transforming industry and changing England permanently and fundamentally.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 573g
- ISBN-13: 9780521766937
- ISBN-10: 0521766931
- Artikelnr.: 30882312
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 573g
- ISBN-13: 9780521766937
- ISBN-10: 0521766931
- Artikelnr.: 30882312
Sir Tony Wrigley is a member and co-founder of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and a former President of the British Academy. His previous publications include Population and History (1969), People, Cities and Wealth (1987), Continuity, Chance and Change (1988), Poverty, Progress, and Population (2004), and, with R. S. Schofield, The Population History of England 1541¿1871 (1981).
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. A Sketch of the Argument: 1. The limits to growth in organic economies
2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
Part II. Favourable Developments: 3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
4. Energy and transport
5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
6. Production and reproduction
Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours: 7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
Part IV. Retrospective: 9. The industrial revolution and energy
Appendix 1. Fuller versions of three tables printed in the main text
Bibliography
Index.
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. A Sketch of the Argument: 1. The limits to growth in organic economies
2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
Part II. Favourable Developments: 3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
4. Energy and transport
5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
6. Production and reproduction
Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours: 7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
Part IV. Retrospective: 9. The industrial revolution and energy
Appendix 1. Fuller versions of three tables printed in the main text
Bibliography
Index.
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. A Sketch of the Argument
1. The limits to growth in organic economies
2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
Part II. Favourable Developments
3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
4. Energy and transport
5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
6. Production and reproduction
Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours
7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
Part IV. Retrospective
9. The industrial revolution and energy
Appendix
1. Fuller versions of three tables printed in the main text
Bibliography
Index
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. A Sketch of the Argument
1. The limits to growth in organic economies
2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
Part II. Favourable Developments
3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
4. Energy and transport
5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
6. Production and reproduction
Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours
7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
Part IV. Retrospective
9. The industrial revolution and energy
Appendix
1. Fuller versions of three tables printed in the main text
Bibliography
Index
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. A Sketch of the Argument: 1. The limits to growth in organic economies
2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
Part II. Favourable Developments: 3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
4. Energy and transport
5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
6. Production and reproduction
Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours: 7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
Part IV. Retrospective: 9. The industrial revolution and energy
Appendix 1. Fuller versions of three tables printed in the main text
Bibliography
Index.
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. A Sketch of the Argument: 1. The limits to growth in organic economies
2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
Part II. Favourable Developments: 3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
4. Energy and transport
5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
6. Production and reproduction
Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours: 7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
Part IV. Retrospective: 9. The industrial revolution and energy
Appendix 1. Fuller versions of three tables printed in the main text
Bibliography
Index.
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. A Sketch of the Argument
1. The limits to growth in organic economies
2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
Part II. Favourable Developments
3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
4. Energy and transport
5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
6. Production and reproduction
Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours
7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
Part IV. Retrospective
9. The industrial revolution and energy
Appendix
1. Fuller versions of three tables printed in the main text
Bibliography
Index
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. A Sketch of the Argument
1. The limits to growth in organic economies
2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
Part II. Favourable Developments
3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
4. Energy and transport
5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
6. Production and reproduction
Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours
7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
Part IV. Retrospective
9. The industrial revolution and energy
Appendix
1. Fuller versions of three tables printed in the main text
Bibliography
Index