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Energy and the English Industrial Revolution /
"The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the revolution began but still more why it did not quickly end. The answer lay in the use of a new source of energy. Pre-industrial societies had access only to very limited energy supplies. As long as mechanical energy came principally from human or animal muscle and heat energy from wood, the maximum attainable level of productivity was bound to be low. Exploitation of a new source of energy in the form of coal provided an escape route from the constraints of an organic economy but also brought novel dangers. Since this happened first in England, its experience has a special fascination, though other countries rapidly followed suit"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511918292 0511918291 9780511779619 0511779615 1282818600 9781282818606 9780511914522 0511914520 0511851618 9780511851612 1107208998 9781107208995 9786612818608 6612818603 0511917317 9780511917318 0511912714 9780511912719 |