The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Robert C. Allen
This book explores why the Industrial Revolution happened in Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia. Author Robert C. Allen argues that it was a response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. With high wages and cheap energy, the breakthrough technologies of the revolution were uniquely profitable to invent and use in Britain. As the cost of these technologies decreased in the 19th century, industrialization spread around the world.
Publish Date
2009-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
2009-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.98
ISBN
9780521687850
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2021-03-04T13:14:30.000Z
Since it's World Book Day, here are some of the best books I've read recently:
I Want to be a Mathematician, by Paul Halmos
Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan
From Galileo to Newton, by Rupert Hall
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert Allen – source