This book explains how new sources of energy increased productivity, thereby transforming industry and changing England permanently and fundamentally.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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).
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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 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 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 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
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