05421nam 2200661 450 991079115960332120230126205407.01-4742-2548-9(CKB)2550000001351876(EBL)1778888(SSID)ssj0001412025(PQKBManifestationID)11803971(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001412025(PQKBWorkID)11406982(PQKB)10688053(MiAaPQ)EBC1778888(Au-PeEL)EBL1778888(CaPaEBR)ebr10927443(CaONFJC)MIL641888(OCoLC)890442132(EXLCZ)99255000000135187620140913h20141992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe industrial revolution /Pat HudsonLondon, [England] ;New York, [New York] :Hodder Arnold,2014.©19921 online resource (262 p.)Reading HistoryIncludes index.1-322-10637-1 0-7131-6531-6 Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; General Editor''s Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Measurement; Specifying the industrial revolution; The causes of the industrial revolution; Part One: Writing and Rewriting History; 1 Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution; Early interpretations; The revolution challenged; Economic cycles and the industrial revolution; Economic growth models; Dependency theories; The transition debate; Heroic accounts; Technology; Capital formation; The factory system and its alternatives; The standard of livingClass and class conflictCurrent perspectives; 2 The Economy and the State; The macroeconomic perspective; Macro estimates and macro interpretations; Method and measurement; Sources; Identifying the industrial revolution; Productivity and innovation; The state; Central government revenue; Government expenditure and war; The impact of the Napoleonic Wars; Economy, society and the fiscal military state; Conclusion; 3 Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution; Productivity and innovation; Productivity estimates; Technical innovations; Capitalist farming; EnclosureThe marketing of agricultural produceThe dynamic links; The release of labour; The supply of food, raw materials and exports; Incomes, real incomes and the home market; Agriculture as a consumer of goods and services; The release of capital; Conclusion; Part Two: The Industrial Revolution; 4 Regions and Industries; The regional perspective; National considerations; Regional diversity; Proto-industrialisation: the location; Proto-industrialisation: dynamic influences; Capital, labour and innovation; The West Riding of Yorkshire; Lancashire; Birmingham and the West MidlandsCoalfield industrialisation: the case of Northumberland and DurhamDeindustrialisation: the case of the Weald; Cumbria: a case of contrasts; Conclusion; 5 Demography and Labour; Population change; Wrigley and Schofield''s analysis; Problems with the preventive check; Proto-industrialisation and demography; Proletarianisation, work opportunities and the family wage economy; Mortality; Urbanisation; Theories of urban growth; The impact of urbanisation; Migration; Population growth and economic growth; The family and labour supply; Conclusion; 6 Consumption and Commerce; The sources of demandDemand and innovationInternal demand; A consumer revolution; A consumer revolution?; The integration of supply and demand; External commerce, colonies and markets; The pattern of overseas trade; The impact of overseas trade; Gentlemanly capitalism and overseas expansion; The slave trade; Slavery and the industrial revolution; Slavery: an assessment; Conclusion; 7 Class and Gender; Class and the industrial revolution; Crime and the dangerous classes; Factors in the formation of the working class; The industrial revolution without class?; Capitalist class or classes?Gentlemanly capitalism and the industrial revolutionThis is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period. Recent revisionist thinking has implied that fundamental change in economic, social and political life at the time of the Industrial Revolution was minimal or non-existent. The author challenges this interpretation, arguing that the process of revision has gone too far; emphasizing continuity at the expense of change and neglecting many historically unique features of the economy and society. Elements given short shrift in many current interpreReading history.Industrial revolutionGreat BritainHistoriographyIndustrial policyGreat BritainHistoriographyGreat BritainEconomic conditionsHistoriographyGreat BritainSocial conditionsHistoriographyIndustrial revolutionHistoriography.Industrial policyHistoriography.338.0941Hudson Pat1948-136785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791159603321Industrial revolution14525UNINA