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The essays in this volume trace the fortunes of British coal technology as it spread across the European continent, from Sweden and Russia to the Alps and Spain. They supply an authoritative picture of industrial transformation in one of the key industries of the 19th century.
Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.
Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the coal and iron industries in the United Kingdom, including descriptions of the major coal fields and analyses of different coal varieties. It also covers the distribution of coal and iron production, as well as the history of these industries in the UK. This book is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of energy production or industrialization. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A succinct and accessible account of the nature and impact of industrialisation in Scotland.
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.