Book ID: CBB144327551

The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade (2017)

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Ashworth, William J. (Author)


Bloomsbury Academic


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 352 pages
Language: English

The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in 19th-century European and North American attempts to understand the foundation of this process.In this book, William J. Ashworth questions some of the orthodoxies concerning the history of the industrial revolution and offers a deep and detailed reassessment of the subject that focuses on the State and its role in the development of key British manufactures. In particular, he explores the role of State regulation and protectionism in nurturing Britain's negligible early manufacturing base. Taking a long view, from the mid 17th century through to the 19th century, the analysis weaves together a vast range of factors to provide one of the fullest analyses of the industrial revolution, and one that places it firmly within a global context, showing that the Industrial Revolution was merely a short moment within a much larger and longer global trajectory. This book is an important intervention in the debates surrounding modern industrial history will be essential reading for anyone interested in global and comparative economic history and the history of globalization.

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Authors & Contributors
Nuvolari, Alessandro
Burke, James C.
Rosenthal, Caitlin
Tartari, Valentina
Morrison-Low, A. D.
Winterbottom, Anna
Concepts
Industrial revolution
Trade
Technology
Science and government
Inventors and invention
Colonialism
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
Enlightenment
16th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Atlantic world
Birmingham (England)
Barbados
Wales
Institutions
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (Great Britain)
Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
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