Robert C. Allen (University of Oxford)

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 West.

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to Economic and Social History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780521687850
• ISBN-10: 0521687853
• Artikelnr.: 25902934

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Allen is Professor of Economic History at Oxford University and a fellow of Nuffield College. His books include Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 (1992), and Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (2003), both of which won the Ranki Prize of the Economic History Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Industrial Revolution and the pre-industrial economy
Part I: 2. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain
3. The agricultural revolution
4. The cheap energy economy
5. Why England succeeded
Part II: 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.