Reinventing the economic history of industrialisation / edited by Kristine Bruland [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruland, Kristine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial revolution.

Industrialization--History.

Industrialization.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 328 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism. However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent years. The book's interdisciplinary approach - with contributions on the history of consumption, material culture, and cultural histories of science and technology - offers a more global perspective, arguing for an interpretation of the industrial revolution based on global interactions that made technological innovation and the spread of knowledge possible. Through this new lens, it becomes clear that industrializing processes started earlier and lasted longer than previously understood. Reflecting on the major topics of concern for economic historians over the past generation, Re-inventing the Economic History of Industrialisation brings this area of study up to date and points the way forward."

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation: An Introduction

The Age of Manufactures: Knowledge, Making, and the Organisation of Production

Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution?

‘What Is Technology?’: An Enquiry into the Science of the Arts at the Dawn of Industrialisation

Silence and Secrecy in Britain's Eighteenth-Century Ceramics Industry

Is Small Beautiful? Workshop Organisation, Technology, and Production in South India, 1700–1960

An Outlook ‘wrapped up in flannel’: The Wool Textile Industry in Wales in the Early Twentieth Century

The Age of Machinery: Technology, Human Capital, and Political Economy

Rethinking Protoindustry: Human Capital and the Rise of Modern Industry

Machinery, Labour Absorption, and Small Producer Capitalism in the Comparative History of Industrialisation

The Mechanisation of English Cotton Textile Production and the Industrial Revolution

An Automatic Technology in British Industrialisation

The Age of Luxury: Consumption, Imagination, and Desire

Leo Africanus Presents Africa to Europeans

Trade Cards and the Art of Selling Manufacture, c. 1680–1800

Old and New Luxuries in Town and Country in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Netherlands

Threads of Empire: Indigenous Wares and Material Ecologies in the ‘Anglo-World’, c. 1780–1920

The Age of Global Trade: Goods, Markets, and Trade

Who Knew How? Visual Representations of the Ceramics Production Process on Porcelain Vessels

Factories before the Factory: The English East India Company's Textile Procurement in India and British Industrialisation, 1650–1750

Botany as Useful Knowledge: French Global Plant Collecting at the End of the Old Regime

Frictions of Empire: Colonial Bombay's Probate and Property Networks in the 1780s

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0206-0

OCLC:

1127385424