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ISBN: 0521687853

ISBN13: 9780521687850

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

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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...

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Business Business & Investing History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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