Reinventing the economic history of industrialisation /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Bruland, Kristine (Editor), Gerritsen, Anne (Editor), Hudson, Pat, 1948- (Editor), Riello, Giorgio (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One: The Age of Manufactures: Knowledge, Making, and the Organisation of Production
  • 1 Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution?
  • 2 'What Is Technology?' An Enquiry into the Science of the Arts at the Dawn of Industrialisation
  • 3 Silence and Secrecy in Britain's Eighteenth-Century Ceramics Industry
  • 4 Is Small Beautiful? Workshop Organisation, Technology, and Production in South India, 1700-1960
  • 5 An Outlook 'wrapped up in flannel': The Wool Textile Industry in Wales in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Part Two: The Age of Machinery: Technology, Human Capital, and Political Economy
  • 6 Rethinking Protoindustry: Human Capital and the Rise of Modern Industry
  • 7 Machinery, Labour Absorption, and Small Producer Capitalism in the Comparative History of Industrialisation
  • 8 The Mechanisation of English Cotton Textile Production and the Industrial Revolution
  • 9 An Automatic Technology in British Industrialisation
  • Part Three: The Age of Luxury: Consumption, Imagination, and Desire
  • 10 Leo Africanus Presents Africa to Europeans
  • 11 Trade Cards and the Art of Selling Manufacture, c. 1680-1800
  • 12 Old and New Luxuries in Town and Country in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Netherlands
  • 13 Threads of Empire: Indigenous Wares and Material Ecologies in the 'Anglo-World, ' c. 1780-1920
  • Part Four: The Age of Global Trade: Goods, Markets, and Trade
  • 14 Who Knew How? Visual Representations of the Ceramics Production Process on Porcelain Vessels
  • 15 Factories before the Factory: The English East India Company's Textile Procurement in India and British Industrialisation, 1650-1750
  • 16 Botany as Useful Knowledge: French Global Plant Collecting at the End of the Old Regime
  • 17 Frictions of Empire: Colonial Bombay's Probate and Property Networks in the 1780s