The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic economy : selected essays

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The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic economy : selected essays

Brinley Thomas

Routledge, 1993

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Essays, with some revisions and updating, most of which were previously published in various journals

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction
  • Britain's energy crisis in the seventeenth century
  • The first Atlantic economy, 1700-1776
  • The end of the Charcoal Iron Age
  • Britain's food supply, 1760-1846
  • Henry Cort and the primacy of Britain
  • Robert Owen (1771-1858)
  • Demographic determinants of British and American building cyckes, 1870-1913
  • Long swings and the Atlantic economy
  • A cauldron of rebirth : the Industrial Revolution and the Welsh language
  • A plea for an organic approach to economic growth

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