The Industrial Revolution in National Context
Subtitle: Europe and the USA
Contributors: Mikulas Teich (Editor); Roy Porter (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780521401005
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Industry & Industrial Studies; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Europe; Industrial History; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Business/Economics; USA; Europe - General; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics-Economic History; Economic history--1750-1918; History / Europe / General; 1750-1918; Economic History; Industrial revolution; United States
First sentence: THE Industrial Revolution has been a familiar landmark in British economic history for most of the twentieth century.
Description: The Industrial Revolution has been, and continues to be, the focus of massive historiographical as well as historical enquiry. This collection includes reappraisals by Phyllis Deane and by Francois Crouzet of their classic accounts of industrialization in Britain and in France, and more generally broaches the wider issue of 'new approaches' which have been emerging for the understanding of the industrializing process in nations where it came somewhat later.

In addition to grappling with questions of technical skills, economic analysis and the process of industrialization, the authors also tackle questions of national politics and international relations.

In addition to the roster of authors who examine individual national experiences, a general essay by Sidney Pollard takes into account the relative contributions of the distinct national experiences in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA and Japan, and assesses them as speical cases of a more general phenomenon.