Energy and the English Industrial Revolution /
"The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the r...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I.A Sketch of the Argument. 1. The limits to growth in organic economies
- 2. The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy
- Part II. Favourable Developments . 3. Agricultural change and urbanisation
- 4. Energy and transport
- 5. Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration
- 6. Production and reproduction
- Part III. What Set England Apart from her Neighbours. 7. The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution
- 8. Modernisation and the industrial revolution
- Part IV. Retrospective. 9. The industrial revolution and energy.