The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic economy [electronic resource] : selected essays / Brinley Thomas

Author:: Thomas, Brinley, 1906-1994
Published:: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Physical Description:: xxi, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Contents:

Introduction -- Britain's energy crisis in the seventeenth century -- The first Atlantic economy, 1700-1776 -- The end of the Charcoal Iron Age -- Feeding England, 1760-1846 : a view from the Celtic fringe -- Henry Cort and the primacy of Britain -- Robert Owen (1771-1858) -- Demographic determinants of British and American building cyckes, 1870-1913 -- Long swings and the Atlantic economy -- A cauldron of rebirth : the Industrial Revolution and the Welsh language -- A plea for an organic approach to economic growth.

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0415079780

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Essays, with some revisions and updating, most of which were previously published in various journals.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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