The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
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- 2009
- #HistoryofTechnology #History #Economics
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 i...
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Number of Pages: 331
ISBN: 0521687853
ISBN-13: 9780521687850
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Paul Graham @paulg
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Mar 4, 2021
Since it's World Book Day, here are some of the best books I've read recently: I Want to be a Mathematician, by Paul Halmos Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan From Galileo to Newton, by Rupert Hall The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert Allen