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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
G D Snooks |
| ISBN: | 0415108683 9780415108683 0415108691 9780415108690 |
| OCLC Number: | 29549261 |
| Description: | xi, 157 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | New perspectives on the Industrial Revolution / Graeme Donald Snooks -- The classical economists, the stationary state, and the Industrial Revolution / E.A. Wrigley -- Great waves of economic change : the Industrial Revolution in historical perspective, 1000 to 2000 / Graeme Donald Snooks -- What was the rate of economic growth during the Industrial Revolution? / R.V. Jackson -- The Industrial Revolution and the genesis of the male breadwinner / Stephen Nicholas and Deborah Oxley. The Industrial Revolution revisited / Stanley L. Engerman. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Graeme Donald Snooks. |
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Abstract:
The Industrial Revolution is one of the most enduring and studied areas of economic history. However, recent studies have concentrated on reviewing existing literature rather than bringing a new perspective to bear on it. Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary? takes an innovative look at this much discussed subject. The authors ask new questions, explore new issues and use new data in order to stimulate interest and elicit new responses. They look at it from various, previously unexplored angles. These include the way the classical economists viewed natural resources as a constraint on rapid and sustained growth; how the Industrial Revolution might have appeared when looking forwards from the Middle Ages rather than the usual retrospective view; what contribution to the debate on living standards can be made by an understanding of income distribution within the family; and what has been gained from these new explorations?
By examining the wider dimensions of the Industrial Revolution, the authors draw conclusions to answer the question of the title.
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