Description: Further DetailsTitle: The British Industrial Revolution in Global PerspectiveCondition: NewEAN: 9780521868273ISBN: 9780521868273Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/09/2009Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 158mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 670gAuthor: Robert C. AllenGenre: Business & FinanceTopic: HistoryBook Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social HistoryRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Title: The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
EAN: 9780521868273
ISBN: 9780521868273
Release Date: 04/09/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Economic History, Sociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Modern / General, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.7 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author: Robert C. Allen
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social History Ser.
Format: Hardcover
