The Industrial Revolution in Britain II, Volume 3

by Hoppit, Julian; Wrigley, E. A.

• ISBN13: 9780631180722
• ISBN10: 0631180729
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Volumes 2 and 3 of the Industrial Revolutions eleven part set, (Industrial Revolution in Britain Vol I and II) present over thirty of the articles which have best illuminated Britain's Industrial revolution, and cover four main areas: the concept of the Industrial Revolution, and the central themes of land, labour and capital. They provide a way of exploring historians' changing approaches to the first Industrial Revolution. A substantial introduction sets the articles into their conceptual, evidential and histiographical context and directs readers to recent work.

Author Biography

Julian Hoppit is a Reader in History at University College, London.

E. A. Wrigley is a Professor at All Souls College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

General editors' introduction	viii
R. A. Chruch
E. A. Wrigley
Introduction	ix
Julian Hoppit
E. A. Wrigley
Part 1. Definitions, Phasing, Scale, Nature
Gentlemanly capitalism and British expansion overseas. I. The old colonial system, 1688--1850	3	(26)
P.J. Cain
A. G. Hopkins
The present and the past in the English industrial revolution, 1880--1980	29	(42)
D. Cannadine
Industrial growth and industrial revolutions	71	(22)
D. C. Coleman
British economic growth, 1700--1831: a review of the evidence	93	(24)
N. F. R. Crafts
Capital formation in the industrial revolution: editor's introduction	117	(32)
F. Crouzet
The implications of early national income estimates for the measurement of long-term economic growth in the United Kingdom	149	(36)
P. Deane
Industrial revolution	185	(23)
H. Heaton
Part 2. Capital, Credit, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Taxation
Capital accumulation and the industrial revolution	208	(17)
C. H. Feinstein
Taxation in Britain and France, 1715--1810	225	(50)
P. Mathias
P.K. O'brien
Recent trends in the accumulation of capital	275	(12)
M. M. Postan
English prices and public finance, 1660--1822	287	(18)
E. B. Schumpeter
The entrepreneur in the industrial revolution in Britain	305	(20)
C. Wilson
Part 3. Labour: Demography, Labour Supply, Standard of Living, Factory Discipline, Social Structure
Enclosure and labour supply in the industrial revolution	325	(26)
J. D. Chambers
The demographic revolution in England: a re-examination	351	(30)
J. A. Goldstone
The rising standard of living in England, 1800--1850	381	(21)
R. M. Hartwell
The British standard of living, 1790--1850	402	(23)
E. J. Hobsbawm
Medical evidence related to English population changes in the eighteenth century	425	(23)
T. Mckeown
R. G. Brown
Time, work discipline, and industrial capitalism	448	(43)
E. P. Thompson
The growth of population in eighteenth-century England: a conundrum resolved	491	(22)
E. A. Wrigley
Acknowledgements	521
Part 4. Land: Agriculture and Raw Material Supply
The growth of labor productivity in early modern English agriculture	3	(30)
R. C. Allen
Harvest technology and labour supply in Britain, 1790--1870	33	(22)
E. J. T. Collins
Agriculture and economic growth in England, 1660--1750: agricultural change	55	(19)
E. I. Jones
The second agricultural revolution, 1815--1880	74	(17)
F. M. L. Thompson
The supply of raw materials in the industrial revolution	91	(17)
E. A. Wrigley
Part 5. Technology, Invention, Innovation, Education
Technological change and industrial development in western Europe, 1750--1914	108	(36)
D. S. Landes
Who unbound Prometheus? Science and technical change, 1600--1800	144	(28)
P. Mathias
Science and industry in the late eighteenth century	172	(24)
A. E. Musson
E. Robinson
Workshop of the world: steam power and hand technology in mid-Victorian Britain	196	(68)
R. Samuel
Nineteenth-century horse sense	264	(24)
F. M. L. Thompson
Part 6. Supply and Demand, Trade Cycles
The home market and economic growth in England, 1750--1780	288	(54)
D. E. C. Eversley
Demand as a factor in the industrial revolution	342	(20)
E. Gilboy
Josiah Wedgwood: an eighteenth-century entrepreneur in salesmanship and marketing techniques	362	(27)
N. Mckendrick
Demand versus supply in the industrial revolution	389	(29)
J. Mokyr
Business cycles, harvests, and politics, 1790--1850	418	(17)
W. W. Rostow
Acknowledgements	435