ISBN: 9780521868273

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 industr… Mehr…

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. | The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective by Robert C. Allen Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History > United Kingdom History P10103, Robert C. Allen<

ISBN: 9780521868273

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 industr… Mehr…

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. Books, [PU: Cambridge University Press]<

2009, ISBN: 9780521868273

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[ED: Gebunden], [PU: Cambridge University Press], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. This landmark global economic history explains why the Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain by highlighting the ways in which Britain was different from ot, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Hardcover, 344, [GW: 712g], Banküberweisung, PayPal<

2009, ISBN: 0521868270

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[EAN: 9780521868273], Neubuch, [PU: Cambridge University Press], HISTORY / EUROPE GREAT BRITAIN, Druck auf Anfrage Neuware -A major new global economic history that explains why the Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain. 344 pp. Englisch, Books<

2009, ISBN: 9780521868273

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