Horn, Jeff.

Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (367 pages) - Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series . - Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Deconstructing the British Industrial Revolution as a Conjuncture and Paradigm for Global Economic History -- 3 The British Product Revolution of the Eighteenth Century -- 4 The European Enlightenment and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth -- 5 Avoiding Revolution -- 6 The Political Economy of Early Industrialization in German Europe -- 7 Reconceptualizing Industrialization in Scandinavia -- 8 Crafting the Industrial Revolution -- 9 Taking Stock of the Industrial Revolution in America -- 10 The Many Transitions of Ebenezer Stedman -- 11 Reconceptualizing Russia's Industrial Revolution -- 12 Financing Brazil's Industrialization -- 13 Trade and Industry in the Indian Subcontinent -- 14 Cultural Engineering and the Industrialization of Japan -- 15 What Price Empire? -- Index.

Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.

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Industrial revolution.
Industrialization.
Economic history.
Technological innovations-History.


Electronic books.

HD2329 .R43 2010

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