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Author : Kristine Bruland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521891558
Kristine Bruland looks at the Norwegian experience to show how a small economy created a technological infrastructure.
Author : Larry Neal,Jeffrey G. Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110701963X
The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of capitalism from its earliest beginnings. Starting with its distant origins in ancient Babylon, successive chapters trace progression up to the 'Promised Land' of capitalism in America. Adopting a wide geographical coverage and comparative perspective, the international team of authors discuss the contributions of Greek, Roman, and Asian civilizations to the development of capitalism, as well as the Chinese, Indian and Arab empires. They determine what features of modern capitalism were present at each time and place, and why the various precursors of capitalism did not survive. Looking at the eventual success of medieval Europe and the examples of city-states in northern Italy and the Low Countries, the authors address how British mercantilism led to European imitations and American successes, and ultimately, how capitalism became global.
Author : Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107320130
This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capacity and advanced technology. They deal with Britain's unique path to industrial revolution and distinguish four themes on the interactions between its emergence as a great power and as the first industrial nation. First, they highlight growth and industrial change, the interconnections between agriculture, foreign trade and industrialisation. Second, they examine technological change and, especially, Britain's unusual inventiveness. Third, they study her institutions and their role in facilitating economic growth. Fourth and finally, they explore British military and naval supremacy, showing how this was achieved and how it contributed to Britain's economic supremacy.
Author : Chris Evans,Göran Rydén
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351887717
The essays in this volume, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, trace the fortunes of British coal technology as it spread across the European continent, from Sweden and Russia to the Alps and Spain, and supply an authoritative picture of industrial transformation in one of the key industries of the 19th century. In this period iron making in continental Europe was transformed by the take-up of technologies such as coke smelting and iron puddling that had already revolutionised the British iron industry. The transfer of British technologies was fundamental to European industrialisation, but that transfer was not straightforward. The techniques that had proved so successful in Britain had to be adapted to local circumstances elsewhere, for charcoal-fired techniques proved surprisingly durable. More often than not, as these studies show, coal-fired methods were incorporated into traditional production systems, making for the proliferation of technological hybrids. Overall, it is diversity that stands out. Some European regions (southern Belgium) came near to the British model; others (Spain) persisted with charcoal technology into the late 19th century. Some countries (Sweden) adopted British organisational principles but not the reliance on coal; others (Russia) maintained different iron making sectors - one coal-based, the other loyal to charcoal - in parallel.
Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521868273
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.
Author : A. G. Kenwood,A. L. Lougheed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351179850
Published in 1982 this is an introductory study of the international spread of modern industrial technology. The book considers the preconditions necessary for a country to adopt effectively modern industrial technology in the nineteenth century and the mechanisms by which this technology spread from one country to another. A global view is adopted and thus the book supplements others which are concerned with the industrial developmet of individual countries during the same period. It will be invaluable to anyone seeking an understanding of the early history of capitalism.
Author : David C. Goodman,Colin Chant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415200806
This text explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society - the transition from rural to urban ways of living. It covers a range of urban technologies, including new building materials and designs.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509
Author : Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521793041
Leading historians examine why Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with European rivals in a position of dominance within the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capacity and advanced technology. They plot Britain's unique path to the Industrial Revolution throughout the interconnections between agriculture, foreign trade and industrialization, unusual inventiveness, the role of institutions, and the contribution of military and naval superiority.
Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429963117
The Industrial Revolution remains a defining moment in the economic history of the modern world. But what kind and how much of a revolution was it? And what kind of ?moment? could it have been? These are just some of the larger questions among the many that economic historians continue to debate. Addressing the various interpretations and assumptions that have been attached to the concept of the Industrial Revolution, Joel Mokyr and his four distinguished contributors present and defend their views on essential aspects of the Industrial Revolution. In this revised edition, all chapters?including Mokyr's extensive introductory survey and evaluation of research in this field?are updated to consider arguments and findings advanced since the volume's initial 1993 publication. Like its predecessor, the revised edition of The British Industrial Revolution is an essential book for economic historians and, indeed, for any historian of Great Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author : Patrick O'Brien,Roland Quinault
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052143744X
This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.
Author : Eric Dorn Brose
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015063361854
In this revised, expanded edition of his critically acclaimed book, Eric Dorn Brose weaves a fabric from three histories that, until now, have been thought of as mutually exclusive. The history of technology, the history of science, and the history of economic development leading to the Industrial Revolution have been written to a very great degree as three histories. For decades historians of science and technology agreed with one another that until the 1900s there was little causative interaction between the subjects they studied. Moreover, economists treated science and technology as 'residual' factors that were important only to the extent that they could be measured. Few historians have attempted, as Brose does here, to demonstrate the relationships among science, technology, the economy, and general political developments. Incorporating much new research, Professor Brose continues his work of synthesising economic and scientific factors along with the role of social and political institutions. The result is an up-to-date, tightly written, and concise survey of the history of technology and science over four centuries. The narrative starts with the opening of the modern historical epoch around 1500 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and covers events in both Europe and the United States. Brose constructs his account from the standpoint of technological systems -- the idea that each epoch evolves a system to meet the material demands of society -- and the rise and fall of each such system within the period. This is a fine introductory overview of the interrelationships among science, technology, and society in the early modern and modern periods, and the impact of each upon the other.
Author : Klaus Schwab
Publisher : Currency
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781524758875
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
Author : James Wolfe
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680480283
The Industrial Revolution has had the most far-reaching and transformative effects of any era in the planet's history. After detailing life and technology in Europe prior to the revolution, this volume presents the changes that led to the revolution, important inventions and innovations, societal and economic consequences, and the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States. Readers will learn how inventions we take for granted today, such as the telephone, steam engine, and railroad, transformed our world and started us on the path to globalization.
Author : Barbara Hahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107186804
Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.