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Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were uniquely profitable to invent and use in Britain. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain also fostered industrial development since more people could afford schooling and apprenticeships. It was only when British engineers made these new technologies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world.

338 <09> <41> --- 926 --- nieuwe geschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- industriële revolutie --- Groot-Brittannië --- 18e eeuw --- 19e eeuw --- 338 <09> <41> Economische geschiedenis--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Economische geschiedenis--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- nieuwe geschiedenis c. 1500-c. 1789 --- Economic history --- Industrial revolution --- Great Britain --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- 331.100 --- 331.12 --- GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de industrie --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1910-1919 --- Industrial revolution - Great Britain --- Economic history - 1750-1918 --- Great Britain - Economic conditions - 18th century --- Great Britain - Social conditions - 18th century --- Révolution industrielle --- Grande-Bretagne --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions sociales --- 1760-1860 --- 18e siècle --- Révolution industrielle --- Conditions économiques --- 18e siècle