The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History) - Tapa blanda

Allen, Robert C.

 
9780521687850: The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
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ISBN 10: 0521687853 ISBN 13: 9780521687850
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

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.

De la contraportada

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.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521687853
ISBN 13 
9780521687850
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
344
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