Locating the industrial revolution : inducement and response / Eric L. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, E. L. (Eric Lionel)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrialization--England--History.

Industrialization.

Economic development--England--History.

Economic development.

England, Northern--Economic conditions--Regional disparities.

England, Northern.

England, Southern--Economic conditions--Regional disparities.

England, Southern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Instead, political certainty, competitive ideology and Enlightenment optimism encouraged investment in transport and communications. This integrated the national market, intensifying competition between regions and altering economic distributions. Despite a dysfunctional landed system, agricultura

Contents:

The view from Little England

The anomaly of the South

Scarce resources?

Possible explanations

Further possibilities

Prosperity, poverty and bourgeois values

De-industrialisation and the landed system

Politics and ideas

Transport and marketing

The pace of change

North and South.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612763489

9781282763487

1282763482

9789814295260

9814295264

OCLC:

670429586