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

• Autore: Jones E. L (Eric Lionel)
• Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.942/08
• Soggetto topico: Industrialization - England - History; Economic development - England - History
• Soggetto geografico: England, Northern Economic conditions Regional disparities; England, Southern Economic conditions Regional disparities
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Locating the industrial revolution
• ISBN: 1-282-76348-2; 9786612763489; 981-4295-26-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780886703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II