The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic economy
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Brinley Thomas.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.; Energy development -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1760-1860.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays, with some revisions and updating, most of which were previously published in various journals.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Britain's energy crisis in the seventeenth century; title: The first Atlantic economy, 1700-1776; title: The end of the Charcoal Iron Age; title: Feeding England, 1760-1846 : a view from the Celtic fringe; title: Henry Cort and the primacy of Britain; title: Robert Owen (1771-1858); title: Demographic determinants of British and American building cyckes, 1870-1913; title: Long swings and the Atlantic economy; title: A cauldron of rebirth : the Industrial Revolution and the Welsh language; title: A plea for an organic approach to economic growth.