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- DescriptionWhy did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and t 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 ecomy 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 techlogies of the industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were uniquely profitable to invent and use in Britain. The high wage ecomy of pre-industrial Britain also fostered industrial development since more people could afford schooling and apprenticeships. It was only when British engineers made these new techlogies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world.
- Author BiographyRobert 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.
Key Features
- Author(s)Robert C. Allen
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Date of Publication09/04/2009
- LanguageEnglish
- FormatPaperback
- ISBN-100521687853
- ISBN-139780521687850
- SubjectHistory: Specific Subjects
- Series TitleNew Approaches to Economic and Social History
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- Place of PublicationCambridge
- Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
- ImprintCambridge University Press
- Content Note10 b/w illus. 21 tables
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- Weight480 g
- Width152 mm
- Height228 mm
- Spine17 mm
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- Format DetailsTrade paperback (US)
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