Title: Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688–1815
Abstract:List of tables and figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: was British industrialisation exceptional? Leandro Prados de la Escosura Part I. The Origins of British Primacy: 1. Brita...List of tables and figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: was British industrialisation exceptional? Leandro Prados de la Escosura Part I. The Origins of British Primacy: 1. Britain's economic ascendancy in a European context Robert C. Allen 2. Comparative patterns of colonial trade: Britain and its rivals Javier Cuenca Esteban Part II. Agriculture and Industrialisation: 3. European farmers and the British 'agricultural revolution' James Simpson 4. Precocious British industrialisation: a general-equilibrium perspective N. F. R. Crafts and C. Knick Harley Part III. Technological Change: 5. The European origins of British technological predominance Christine MacLeod 6. Invention in the Industrial Revolution: the case of cotton James Thomson 7. Continental responses to British innovations in the iron industry during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Rainer Fremdling Part IV. Institutions and Growth: 8. The monetary, financial and political architecture of Europe, 1648-1815 Larry Neal 9. Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the 'long' eighteenth century Richard Bonney 10. Money and economic development in eighteenth-century England Forrest Capie Part V. War and Hegemony: 11. Naval power: what gave the British naval superiority? Daniel A. Baugh Conclusions: Institutional change and British supremacy, 1650-1850: some reflections Stanley L. Engerman Laudatio patritii: Patrick O'Brien and European economic history Gianni Toniolo References Index.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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