The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

By:

Robert C Allen

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New Approaches to Economic and Social History

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

April 9th, 2009

Author

Robert C Allen

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

21 Tables, unspecified; 10 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

342

Series

New Approaches to Economic and Social History

Dimensions

152x227x17

ISBN-13

9780521687850

Product ID

2787158

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