The First Industrial Nation: Economic History of Britain, 1700-1914

by PeterMathias (Author)

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  1990

  $4.39

  The First Industrial Nation plots the course and explains the process of industrial development in Britain in the generations after 1700, and employs a wide range of comparisons to describe the rhythm of change during the 150 years that saw Britain become the world's greatest industrial power. From 1850, the growing competitive pressures of an industrializing world brought difficulties of an unfamiliar kind, and the author discusses the relationships of all the main economic sectors during this long sequence of challenge and response in the international economy: from being the first industrial nation to appear in the world, Britain became its first mature' economy. While the text does not demand economic and econometric expertise, it analyses the economic and social dimensions of change in all their complexity and shows how the history of that transformation is of particular significance in the comparative study of economic development in the twentieth century.

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.29

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  Paperback
  2001

  $33.86

  This celebrated and seminal text examines the industrial revolution, from its genesis in pre-industrial Britain, through its development and into maturity. A chapter-by-chapter analysis explores topics such as economic growth, agriculture, trade finance, labour and transport. First published in 1969, The First Industrial Nation is widely recognised as a classic text for students of the industrial revolution.