Locating the industrial revolution inducement and response /

• Main Author: Jones, E. L.
• Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2010.
• Subjects: Industrialization > History. > England; Economic development > History. > England; England, Northern > Economic conditions > Regional disparities.; England, Southern > Economic conditions > Regional disparities.; Electronic books.
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The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process. Neither rise nor decline resulted from differences in natural resource endowments, since they began before the use of coal and steam in manufacturing...

Table of Contents:

• ch. 1. The view from little England
• pt. I. De-industrialisation : Southern England. ch. 2. The anomaly of the South. ch. 3. Scarce resources? ch. 4. Possible explanations. ch. 5. Further possibilities. ch. 6. Prosperity, poverty and bourgeois values. ch. 7. De-industrialisation and the landed system
• pt. II. Economic change. ch. 8. Politics and ideas. ch. 9. Transport and marketing. ch. 10. The pace of change
• pt. III. Industrialisation. ch. 11. North and South.