Published: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1982
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3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
“…: -- Industrial Revolution And Growth: -- Some Relevant Comparisons: -- Revolution: a complicated and ambiguous term -- Downstream from the industrial revolution: the under-developed countries -- Upstream from the English industrial revolution: revolutions that came to nothing -- Alexandrian Egypt -- Earliest industrial revolution in Europe: horses and mills, from the eleventh to the thirteenth
century -- Age of Agricola and Leonardo da Vinci: a revolution in embryo -- John U Nef and the first British industrial revolution 1560-1640 -- Industrial Revolution In Britain, Sector By Sector: -- British agriculture, a crucial factor -- Demographic revival -- Technology, a necessary but probably not sufficient
condition -- Why the cotton revolution should not be underestimated -- Victory in long-distance trade -- Spread of inland transport -- Mills of history grind exceedingly slow -- Beyond The Industrial Revolution: -- Types of growth -- How can growth be explained? …”
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