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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456206603321

Autore

Jones E. L (Eric Lionel)

Titolo

Locating the industrial revolution [[electronic resource] ] : inducement and response / / Eric L. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2010

ISBN

1-282-76348-2

9786612763489

981-4295-26-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

330.942/08

Soggetti

Industrialization - England - History

Economic development - England - History

Electronic books.

England, Northern Economic conditions Regional disparities

England, Southern Economic conditions Regional disparities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The view from Little England -- The anomaly of the South -- Scarce resources? -- Possible explanations -- Further possibilities -- Prosperity, poverty and bourgeois values -- De-industrialisation and the landed system -- Politics and ideas -- Transport and marketing -- The pace of change -- North and South.

Sommario/riassunto

The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process. Neither rise nor decline resulted from differences in natural resource endowments, since they began before the use of coal and steam in manufacturing. Instead, political certainty, competitive ideology and Enlightenment optimism encouraged investment in transport and communications. This integrated the national market, intensifying competition between regions and altering economic distributions. Despite a dysfunctional landed system, agricultura