The British industrial revolution in global perspective / Robert C. Allen, University of Oxford ; edited for the economic history society by Nigel Goose, University of Hertfordshire, Larry Neal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge University PressPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Third printing 2009Description: xi, 331 pages. : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521868273 (hardback)Subject(s): Industrial revolution -- Great Britain | Economic history -- 1750-1918 | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th centuryLOC classification: HC254.5 .A663 2009Subject: Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not 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 economy 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 technologies 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 economy 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 technologies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world. https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Revolution-Perspective-Approaches-Economic/dp/0521687853
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-312) and index (pages 313-331).
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not 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 economy 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 technologies 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 economy 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 technologies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Revolution-Perspective-Approaches-Economic/dp/0521687853