Nation, State and the Industrial Revolution: The Visible Hand: 45 (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

by Lars Magnusson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $156.65

  The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern (national) state are two of the main historical processes to have occurred during the nineteenth century. This book demonstrates that industrial transformation was very much connected to state and military interests and was bolstered by elite groups who served such interests.