ABSTRACT
Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary? takes an innovative look at this much studied subject. The contributors ask new questions, explore new issues and use new data in order to stimulate interest and elicit new responses. By looking at it from such previously unexplored angles the book brings a new understanding to the Industrial Revolution and opens a new debate.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |36 pages
Great Waves of Economic Change
The Industrial Revolution in Historical Perspective, 1000 to 2000
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