Author | Thomas, Brinley, 1906- |
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Title | The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic economy [electronic resource] : selected essays / Brinley Thomas |
Imprint | London ; New York : Routledge, 1993 |
Connect to | http://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9780203161210 |
Descript | xxi, 260 p. : ill |
Introduction -- Britain's energy crisis in the seventeenth century -- The first Atlantic economy, 1700-1776 -- The end of the Charcoal Iron Age -- Feeding England, 1760-1846 : a view from the Celtic fringe -- Henry Cort and the primacy of Britain -- Robert Owen (1771-1858) -- Demographic determinants of British and American building cyckes, 1870-1913 -- Long swings and the Atlantic economy -- A cauldron of rebirth : the Industrial Revolution and the Welsh language -- A plea for an organic approach to economic growth