Book Description
Argues 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 Thomas' organic approach to economic growth.
Author : Thomas Brinley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134896042
Argues 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 Thomas' organic approach to economic growth.
Author : Thomas Brinley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134896034
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
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Energy development
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Author : Adrian Leonard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1137432721
This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.
Author : J. E. Inikori
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521811937
Detailed study of the role of overseas trade and Africans in the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Jim Potter
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1509552707
The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson 'follow the money' to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses and filled them with luxuries. The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people. The result is a bold and unflinching account of how Britain became a global superpower, and how the legacy of slavery persists. Acknowledging Britain's role in slavery is not just about toppling statues and renaming streets. We urgently need to come to terms with slavery's inextricable links with Western capitalism, and the ways in which many of us continue to benefit from slavery to this day.
Author : Barbara L. Solow
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0739192477
The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system encompassing Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean, and was an important determinant of the timing and pattern of the Industrial Revolution in England. The new industrial economy was no longer dependent on slavery for development, but rested instead on investment and innovation. Solow argues that abolition of the slave trade and emancipation should be understood in this context.
Author : C. Knick Harley
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0375713964
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.