Allen Robert C.: The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries…