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The industrial revolution: the birth of the Modern Age
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ISBN: 029777509X 9780297775096 Year: 1978 Publisher: London Weidenfeld and Nicholson


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Population in industrialization
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ISBN: 0416120709 0416120601 9780416120608 9780416120707 Year: 1969 Publisher: London Methuen

The first industrial revolution
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ISBN: 0521296099 0521226678 0511622090 9780521296090 Year: 1979 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book identifies the strategic changes in economic organisation, industrial structure and technological progress associated with the industrial revolution, which took place in Britain over the century 1750-1850 and which marked a watershed in world economic development - the beginnings of modern economic growth for developed countries and an example of spontaneous industrialisation for third world countries. The book assesses both starting point and achievement, analyses the substance of economic transformation and evaluates the role of government policy and institutional change in retarding or accelerating economic development. The second edition updates and expands the first by taking into account (and giving bibliographical references for) major topical knowledge and ideas. This work has proved a successful textbook for sixth form students as well as undergraduate students in faculties of economics, history, geography or social science generally. It is, however, sufficiently nontechnical to be intelligible to a general reader interested in putting problems of economic development into historical perspective.

Coping with city growth during the British Industrial Revolution
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ISBN: 0521364809 0521893887 0511664893 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Coping with City Growth assesses Britain's handling of city growth during the First Industrial Revolution by combining the tools used by Third World analysts with the archival attention and eclectic style of the economic historian. What emerges is an exciting and provocative accounts that have long occupied problem development economists: urban unemployment, underemployment, and the alleged failure of city labour markets to absorb the flood of rural emigrants; the persistent influx of newcomers, which makes it difficult for municipal planners to improve the quality of social overhead; the crowding of migrants into densely packed urban slums with few, if any, social services; and rising density and city size which augment pollution while lowering the quality of the urban environment.

The forging of the modern state : early industrial Britain, 1783-1870
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ISBN: 0582489695 0582489709 9780582489707 9780582489691 Year: 1983 Publisher: London : Longman,

The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic economy : selected essays
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ISBN: 0415079780 1138865761 1280327626 0203161211 0429228899 1134896042 9780203161210 9786610327621 6610327629 9781134896042 9781134895991 1134895992 9781134896035 1134896034 9781138865761 9780415079785 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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In recent years it has become commonplace to downplay notions of an industrial revolution and argue instead that Britain's transformation was gradual and incremental. In The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy Brinley Thomas contests this view, arguing that change in the energy base and hence in technology has enabled Britain to overcome an energy crisis and sustain dramatic population growth. Throughout these essays illustrate the organic approach to economic growth that Brinley Thomas pioneered.

Family formation in an age of nascent capitalism.
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ISBN: 0124450504 1322338671 1483260755 9780124450509 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Academic press


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Before method and models : the political economy of Malthus and Ricardo
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ISBN: 0197601421 0197603076 9780197603055 019760305X 9780197603079 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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'Before Method and Models' examines the shocked reaction to their first appearance of economists in nineteenth-century Britain, where the presumption of Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo to reform society on the basis of theory was unwelcome. Walter shows how the major challenge facing the first economists was, accordingly, to legitimize the activity of theorizing and then reforming economic life, along with the institutions that embedded it in the political nation.

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