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Locating the industrial revolution : inducement and response /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, E. L. (Eric Lionel)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.