The Industrial Revolution in America: Iron and steel


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A set of books on the Industrial Revolution, these comprehensive volumes cover the history of steam shipping, iron and steel production, and railroads-three interrelated enterprises that helped shift the Industrial Revolution into overdrive.










The Industrial Revolution in Iron


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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.




Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy'


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Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.







Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry


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This book was first published in 1967. This volume explores the history of the British iron and steel industry from 1760, tracking its development, relationship with the British economy, regional hubs, technological developments and the final triumph of steel over iron.




Encyclopaedia Britannica


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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.