The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy: Selected Essays by Thomas Brinley (Hardcover, 1993)

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Physical description: 260 pages. Notes: Essays, with some revisions and updating, most of which were previously published in various journals. Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Britain's energy crisis in the seventeenth century; The first Atlantic economy, 1700 76; The end of the charcoal iron age; Britain's food supply, 1760 1846: the Irish contribution; Henry Cort and the primacy of Britain; Robert Owen (1771 1858): a hero of the Industrial Revolution; Demographic determinants of British and American building cycles, 1870 1913; Long swings and the Atlantic economy: a reappraisal; A cauldron of rebirth: the Industrial Revolution and the Welsh languageA plea for an organic approach to economic growth. Index. Summary: In recen.