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The Industrial Revolution : milestones in business history / Jeff Horn.
Lippincott Library HC254.5 .H67 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horn, Jeff (Historian)
- Series:
- Milestones in business history
- Milestones in business history, 1934-7251
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial revolution--Great Britain--History.
- Industrial revolution.
- Industrialization--Great Britain--History.
- Industrialization.
- Economic conditions.
- History.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--History.
- Great Britain.
- Industrial revolution--Europe.
- Europe.
- Europe--Economic conditions--History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Growth and the standard of living in the industrial revolution
- The building blocks of a new economy
- Making an industrial revolution I : technological change
- Making an industrial revolution II : the elaboration of the factory system
- Why was Britain first?
- Leads and lags : competing with a dominant economic power
- Industrialization and the new world order
- Demand, supply, and the fickle whims of fashion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-161) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313338533
- 0313338531
- OCLC:
- 77830141
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