Locating the industrial revolution: inducement and response
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Main Author: Jones, E. L., (Eric Lionel) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore World Scientific ©2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The view from Little England -- The anomaly of the South -- Scarce resources? -- Possible explanations -- Further possibilities -- Prosperity, poverty and bourgeois values -- De-industrialisation and the landed system -- Politics and ideas -- Transport and marketing -- The pace of change -- North and South
The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process. Neither rise nor decline resulted from differences in natural resource endowments, since they began before the use of coal and steam in manufacturing. Instead, political certainty, competitive ideology and Enlightenment optimism encouraged investment in transport and communications. This integrated the national market, intensifying competition between regions and altering economic distributions. Despite a dysfunctional landed system, agricultura
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 272 pages)
ISBN:9789814295253
9789814295260
9814295256
9814295264

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