Exceptionalism and industrialisation
Subtitle: Britain and its European rivals, 1688-1815
By: edited by Leandro Prados de la Escosura.
Contributors: Prados de la Escosura, Leandro.; O'Brien, Patrick Karl.
Publisher: Cambridge; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Technological innovations -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Industrial revolution -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Technological innovations -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- Congresses; Europe -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capacity and advanced technology. They deal with Britain's unique path to industrial revolution and distinguish four themes on the interactions between its emergence as a great power and as the first industrial nation."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: "This volume originated in a conference held in March 26-27, 2001 in Madrid, on 'Britain and Its Rivals' ... to honour ... Patrick Karl O'Brien, ... [and] sponsored by Fundación BBVA"--P. xv.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Britain's economic ascendancy in a European context / Robert C. Allen; title: Comparative patterns of colonial trade: Britain and its rivals / Javier Cuenca Esteban; title: European farmers and the British agricultural revolution / James Simpson; title: Precocious British industrialisation: a general-equilibrium perspective / N.F.R. Crafts and C. Knick Harley; title: The European origins of British technological predominance / Christine MacLeod; title: Invention in the industrial revolution: the case of cotton / James Thomson; title: Continental responses to British innovations in the iron industry during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Rainer Fremdling; title: The monetary, financial and political architecture of Europe, 1648-1815 / Larry Neal; title: Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the long eighteenth century / Richard Bonney; title: Money and economic development in eighteenth-century England / Forrest Capie; title: Naval power: what gave the British navy superiority? / Daniel A. Baugh; title: Institutional change and British supremacy, 1650-1850: some reflections / Stanley L. Engerman; title: Laudatio patritii. Patrick O'Brien and European economic history / Gianni Toniolo.