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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective - New Approaches to Economic and Social History
Author: Robert C. Allen
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521687850
ISBN-10: 0521687853
Publication Date: 4/27/2009
Pages: 344
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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