In recent years it has become commonplace to downplay notions of an industrial revolution and argue instead that Britain's transformation was gradual and incremental. In The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy Brinley Thomas contests this view, arguing that change in the energy base and hence in technology has enabled Britain to overcome an energy crisis and sustain dramatic population growth. Throughout these essays illustrate the organic approach to economic growth that Brinley Thomas pioneered.
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Brinley Thomas is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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United States, Great Britain, New York, Robert Owen, South Wales, Cambridge University Press, Economic History Review, United Kingdom, Seven Years War, Oxford University Press, New Lanark, National Bureau of Economic Research, Bank of England, Princeton University Press, Henry Cort, Parry Lewis, House of Commons, Navy Board, Harvard University Press, Royal Navy, West Indies, Navigation Laws, Corn Laws, Abraham Darby, Longmans Green Browse Sample Pages:
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- Globalization's Contradictions: Geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation by Dennis Conway in Back Matter
- Paths of Fire by Robert McCormick Adams in Back Matter
- Technological Change: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) by Robert Fox on page 149
- The Industrial Revolution In Iron: The Impact Of British Coal Technology In Nineteenth-Century Europe by Chris Evans in Back Matter
- Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese in Back Matter
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