Reinventing The Economic History Of Industrialisation

Author : Kristine Bruland,Anne Gerritsen,Pat Hudson,Giorgio Riello
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228002079

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Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation by Kristine Bruland,Anne Gerritsen,Pat Hudson,Giorgio Riello Pdf

The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism. However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent years. The interdisciplinary approach of Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation - with contributions on the history of consumption, material culture, and cultural histories of science and technology - offers a more global perspective, arguing for an interpretation of the industrial revolution based on global interactions that made technological innovation and the spread of knowledge possible. Through this new lens, it becomes clear that industrialising processes started earlier and lasted longer than previously understood. Reflecting on the major topics of concern for economic historians over the past generation, Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation brings this area of study up to date and points the way forward.

Author : Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521238099

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Industiarlization before Industiarlization by Peter Kriedte,Hans Medick,Jurgen Schlumbohm Pdf

Beginning in the late Middle Ages, and accelerating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there developed in many rural regions of Europe a domestic industry, mass-producing craft goods for distant markets. This book presents an analysis of this 'industrialization before industrialization', and considers the question whether it constituted a distinct mode of production, different from the preceding feudal economy and from subsequent industrial capitalism, or was part of a process of continuous evolution characterized by the spread of wage labour and the penetration of capitalism into the process of production. It is a full-scale attempt to take a look at the place of proto-industrialization in the genesis of capitalism, and will interest economic and social historians, as well as anthropologists, sociologists, and others concerned with the development of capitalism.

Author : Tom Kemp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317895121

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Historical Patterns of Industrialization by Tom Kemp Pdf

Industrialization is still the factor that distinguishes the modern world from the past, and advanced countries from undeveloped ones. In this revised and expanded edition, Tom Kemp uses the historical record of industrialization to explore key questions about its impact and the significance we assign to it. The book adopts a thematic approach to examine the roles of technology, banking, transport and the state; the fate of the peasantry in an industrializing society; and the changing features of industrial capitalism in the latter part of the 19th century. It features four contrasted case studies from outside Europe - India, Canada, Japan and, for the first time in this second edition, South Africa. It is aimed at 1st year University/Polytechnic students and is suitable for courses in economic history, social history, development studies, applied economics, international economics and area studies.

Author : Avner Greif,Lynne Kiesling,John V.C. Nye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691210629

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Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization by Avner Greif,Lynne Kiesling,John V.C. Nye Pdf

This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent economic historian of his generation—these wide-ranging essays address a host of core economic questions. What are the origins of markets? How do governments shape our economic fortunes? What role has entrepreneurship played in the rise and success of capitalism? Tackling these and other issues, the book looks at coercion and exchange in the markets of twelfth-century China, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning in pre–Civil War New York, aircraft manufacturing before World War I, and more. The book also features an essay that surveys Mokyr's important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the Industrial Revolution. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Gergely Baics, Hoyt Bleakley, Fabio Braggion, Joyce Burnette, Louis Cain, Mauricio Drelichman, Narly Dwarkasing, Joseph Ferrie, Noel Johnson, Eric Jones, Mark Koyama, Ralf Meisenzahl, Peter Meyer, Joel Mokyr, Lyndon Moore, Cormac Ó Gráda, Rick Szostak, Carolyn Tuttle, Karine van der Beek, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Simone Wegge.

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 086598154X

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The Economics of the Industrial Revolution by Joel Mokyr Pdf

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has become the focal point for these efforts as professional economists have sought to resolve some of the controversies surrounding this topic. This collection contains ten of the best articles written by economists on the subject of the Industrial Revolution ... Among the questions discussed are the causes for the pre-eminence of Britain, the roles of the inputs for growth (capital, labor, technical progress), the importance of demand factors, the relation between agricultural progress and the Industrial Revolution, and the standard of living debate. The essays demonstrate that the application of fresh viewpoints to the literature has given us a considerable new body of data at our disposal, making it possible to test commonly held hypotheses. In addition, this new data has enabled economists to apply a more rigorous logic to the thinking about the Industrial Revolution, thus sharpening many issues heretofore blurred by slipshod methodology and internal inconsistencies.-- Back cover.

Author : Richard Sylla,Gianni Toniolo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134892334

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Patterns of European Industrialisation by Richard Sylla,Gianni Toniolo Pdf

The new opportunities for economic development in Eastern Europe and the approach of 1992 have heightened interest in the development of the European economy. This volume, which includes contributions from some of the world's leading economic historians, presents and discusses the latest research findings on the industrialization and modernization of the European economy during the nineteenth century.

Author : Bas van Leeuwen,Robin C.M. Philips,Erik Buyst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429510120

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An Economic History of Regional Industrialization by Bas van Leeuwen,Robin C.M. Philips,Erik Buyst Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive study of regional industrialization in Europe and Asia from the early nineteenth century to the present. Using case studies on regional industrialization, the book provides insights into similarities and differences in industrialization processes between European, Eurasian and Asian countries. Important factors include the transition from traditional to modern industrial production, industrial policy, agglomeration forces, market integration, and the determinants of industrial location over time. The book is an invaluable reference that attempts to bridge the fields of economic history, political history, economic geography, and economics while contributing to the debates on economic divergence between Europe and Asia as well as on the role of economic integration and globalization.

Author : Robert S. Duplessis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521397731

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Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Robert S. Duplessis Pdf

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, the long-established structures and practices of European agriculture and industry were slowly, disparately, but profoundly transformed. Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, first published in 1997, narrates and analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that permanently modified rural and urban production, altered Europe's economy and geography, and gave birth to new social classes. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe, as well as to the classic interpretations and current debates and revisions. The study incorporates scholarship on topics such as the world economy and women's work, and it discusses at length the impact of the emergent capitalist order on Europe's working people.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000227123

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The Industrial Revolution in World History by Peter N. Stearns Pdf

Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors that helped launch the industrial revolution, its global spread and its impact from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. The single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, the industrial revolution continues to shape the contemporary world. Revised and brought into the present, this fifth edition of Peter N. Stearns’ The Industrial Revolution in World History extends his global analysis of the industrial revolution. Looking beyond the West, the book considers India, the Middle East and China and now includes more on key Latin American economies and Africa as well as the heightened tensions, since 2008, about the economic aspects of globalization and the decline of manufacturing in the West. This edition also features a new chapter on key historiographical debates, updated suggestions for further reading and boxed debate features that encourage the reader to consider diversity and different viewpoints in their own analysis, and pays increased attention to the environmental impacts. Illustrating the contemporary relevance of the industrial revolution's history, this is essential reading for students of world history and economics, as well as for those seeking to know more about the global implications of what is arguably the defining socioeconomic event of modern times.

Author : Phyllis Deane,University of Cambridge. Department of Applied Economics
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth by Phyllis Deane,University of Cambridge. Department of Applied Economics Pdf

Author : Lenard R. Berlanstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134911929

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The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth Century Europe by Lenard R. Berlanstein Pdf

The Industrial Revolution is a central concept in conventional understandings of the modern world, and as such is a core topic on many history courses. It is therefore difficult for students to see it as anything other than an objective description of a crucial turning-point, yet a generation of social and labour history has revealed the inadequacies of the Industrial Revolution as a way of conceptualizing economic change. This book provides students with access to recent upheavals in scholarly debate by bringing a selection of previously published articles, by leading scholars and teachers, together in one volume, accompanied by explanatory notes. The editor's introduction also provides a synthesis and overview of the topic. As the revision of historical thought is a continual process, this volume seeks to bring the reinterpretation of such debates as working-class formation up to the present by introducing post-structuralist and feminist perspectives.

Author : Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107038455

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson Pdf

A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 1 tracks Britain's economic history in the period ranging from 1700 to 1870 from industrialisation to global trade and empire. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and apply quantitative methods. New approaches are proposed to classic issues such as the causes and consequences of industrialisation, the role of institutions and the state, and the transition from an organic to an inorganic economy, as well as introducing new issues such as globalisation, convergence and divergence, the role of science, technology and invention, and the growth of consumerism. Throughout the volume, British experience is set within an international context and its performance benchmarked against its global competitors.

Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199596652

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Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen Pdf

Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.

Author : Lars Magnusson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Economic history
ISBN : 0415496071

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Twentieth-Century Economic History by Lars Magnusson Pdf

The study of economic phenomena over time is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and this new four-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics, meets the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference work synthesizing the voluminous literature from twentieth-century economic historians. Indeed, the sheer scale of the research outputâe"and the breadth of the fieldâe"makes this collection especially welcome. It answers the need for a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important scholarship from a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives. The collection is organized into ten principal parts. Part 1 explores theory and methodology and the role of economic history as either an alternative to mainstream economics, or as a âe~help disciplineâe(tm). Part 2 gathers the key research on growth in economic history. The third and fourth parts cover the causes and social consequences of the Industrial Revolution, while Part 5 brings together the best and most influential work on the feudal and early modern economy. Part 6 deals with free trade, mercantilism, and imperialism. Part 7 focuses on the Great Depression, while Part 8 collects research on world economic history and the slave economy. The final part collects a fascinating miscellany of crucial issues, including taxation and gender. Twentieth-Century Economic History is edited by Lars Magnusson, a leading scholar in the field. The collection is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

Author : A. Joseph Pollard
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 371865007X

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Typology of Industrialization Processes in the Nineteenth Century by A. Joseph Pollard Pdf

The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was the first example of the transition to a modern industrial economy. This book compares the process of industrialization in other countries which later copied and modified certain features of this transition.