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1 online resource (xv, 335 pages) :
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ISBN:
1-107-14357-8
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1-139-80966-0
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1-107-31597-2
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1-107-32136-0
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1-107-31692-8
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1-107-31789-4
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1-299-39919-3
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1-107-31499-2
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0-511-52383-1
Content:
This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capacity and advanced technology. They deal with Britain's unique path to industrial revolution and distinguish four themes on the interactions between its emergence as a great power and as the first industrial nation. First, they highlight growth and industrial change, the interconnections between agriculture, foreign trade and industrialisation. Second, they examine technological change and, especially, Britain's unusual inventiveness. Third, they study her institutions and their role in facilitating economic growth. Fourth and finally, they explore British military and naval supremacy, showing how this was achieved and how it contributed to Britain's economic supremacy.
Note:
"This volume originated in a conference held on 26-7 March, 2001 in Madrid, on 'Britain and Its Rivals' ... to honour ... Patrick Karl O'Brien, ... [and] sponsored by Fundacion BBVA"--P. xv.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Was British industrialization exceptional?; Part I. The origins of British primacy; 1. Britain's economic ascendancy in a European context; Economic structure; Wages and prices; GDP per head; The agricultural revolution; The growth of non-agricultural employment: rural industry; The growth of non-agricultural employment: cities; What caused what?; Conclusion; 2. Comparative patterns of colonial trade: Britain and its rivals; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5
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Appendix: sources for tables 2.1-2.3, table 2.5, and figures 2.1-2.3Part II. Agriculture and industrialisation; 3. European farmers and the British 'agricultural revolution'; 1 Demographic change, urbanisation and agricultural specialisation; 2 Livestock specialisation; 3 Farm size and labour-intensive farming; 4 Land ownership and farm organisation; Conclusion; 4. Precocious British industrialisation: a general-equilibrium perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 APrimer on general equilibrium in an open economy; 3 Aninitial simulation of the CGE model
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4 Simulating the effects of population growth and technological progress5 Capitalist versus peasant farming; 6 Conclusions; Part III. Technological change; 5. The European origins of British technological predominance; 6. Invention in the Industrial Revolution: the case of cotton; 1 Patrick O'Brien's interpretation; 2 Narrative of invention in cotton; 3 Conclusion; 7. Continental responses to British innovations in the iron industry during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; 1 Introduction; 2 The innovations of the coke blast furnace, of puddling and rolling in Great Britain2
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3 Transfer patterns to the continent: coke smelting and castings4 Transfer patterns to the continent: coke smelting and puddling/rolling; 5 Asketch of an explanatory framework; Part IV. Institutions and growth; 8. The monetary, financial and political architecture of Europe, 1648-1815; From 1648 to 1688; The Dutch system; The English system; The French system; The final shocks: Revolution and war, 1789-1815; 9. Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the 'long' eighteenth century; 10. Money and economic development in eighteenth-century England; Introduction
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1 Money2 Aframework for monetary estimates; Conclusion; Part V. War and Hegemony; 11. Naval power: what gave the British navy superiority?; Geography and geopolitics; Ships, dockyards, and supplies; Institutional benefits of peacetime active service; Manning; The challenge of distant deployments; The transformation of strategy; The impact on Europe; Conclusion; Conclusions; Institutional change and British supremacy, 1650-1850: some reflections; 1 Introduction; 2 Historiographic issues; 3 European settlements overseas; 4 Explanations of British growth
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5 Institutional factors in British growth
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-18969-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-79304-1
Language:
English
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523830
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