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Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution /

Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization. This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discret...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horn, Jeff (Historian) (Editor ), Rosenband, Leonard N. (Editor ), Smith, Merritt Roe, 1940- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
Colección:Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover ; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Deconstructing the British Industrial Revolution as a Conjuncture and Paradigm for Global Economic History; 3 The British Product Revolution of the Eighteenth Century; 4 The European Enlightenment and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth; 5 Avoiding Revolution; 6 The Political Economy of Early Industrialization in German Europe; 7 Reconceptualizing Industrialization in Scandinavia; 8 Crafting the Industrial Revolution; 9 Taking Stock of the Industrial Revolution in America; 10 The Many Transitions of Ebenezer Stedman
  • 11 Reconceptualizing Russia's Industrial Revolution12 Financing Brazil's Industrialization; 13 Trade and Industry in the Indian Subcontinent; 14 Cultural Engineering and the Industrialization of Japan; 15 What Price Empire?; Index