The Coal and iron industries
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The Coal and iron industries
(The Industrial revolutions / general editors R.A. Church and E.A. Wrigley, v. 10)
Blackwell Publishers, 1994
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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In the long run, the introduction of mineral fuel technology in the production of iron was critical to Britain's world leadership in coal and iron production and trade, as were the innovations in power transmission and transport originating in the coal industry. In other countries different natural resource endowments, cost structures, domestic markets and commercial policies resulted in contrasting timing and patterns of development in the heavy industries. Major themes treated in the key readings in this volume, and highlighted in a substantial introduction, include the process of technological change, its diffusion and effects, and the comparative roles of entrepreneurs and governments in the major producing and consuming industries.
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