The First industrial revolutions
By: edited by Peter Mathias and John A. Davis.
Contributors: Mathias, Peter.; Davis, John Anthony.; Istituto italiano di studi filosofici.
Series: The Nature of industrialization ;; [v. 1]
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Industrial revolution -- Europe -- Congresses; Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Industrialization -- History -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lectures originally given in a program organized at the University of Oxford in 1984 for the benefit in particular of young Italian scholars and sponsored by the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies of Naples.
Table of contents: title: The Industrial Revolution: concept and reality / Peter Mathias; title: The new economic history and the Industrial Revolution / N.F.R. Crafts; title: Industrialization in Britain and Europe before 1850 / John A. Davis; title: Financing the Industrial Revolution / Peter Mathias; title: Transport: the survival of the old beside the new / T.C. Barker; title: Agriculture and industrialization / Peter Mathias; title: Population and economic change in the eigteenth and nineteenth centuries / Robert Woods; title: The transformation of work in European industrialization / Kristine Bruland.